On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 23:23 -0700, Bruce Pinsky wrote: > Brian Spade wrote: > > If the link goes down, the missing ethernet keepalive should signal a > > topology change before the dead timer interval expires. Therefore, I'm > > not clear on how the difference in hello timers would impact convergence. > > It's not about the hello timers, it's about eliminating the DR/BDR election.
And it simplifies the SPF graph, so for large networks the routers spend less time calculating the results. If you're using Ethernet as point-to-point, and you'll only ever have two routers on a segment, the links should be marked "point-to-point" for any SPF algorithm. Regards, Peter _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
