Agree Toerless. Resist the urge. :-)

Dino

> On Aug 5, 2015, at 10:39 AM, Toerless Eckert (eckert) <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> Just stick to multicast delivery but use long timeouts, and use (something 
> like) bfd (with unicast) for actual neighbor aliveness.
> 
> Still sucks to tweak a routing protocol design for a broken l2 design (only 
> unicast reliability provided for).
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Sent from my Samsung Captivate Glide on AT&T
> 
> Dino Farinacci <[email protected]> wrote:
> There are a lot of things wrong in the IETF. And there are some good things 
> about the IETF. 
> 
> Let’s just keep the discussions technical. We may have to be subjective, but 
> that is the right of openness. But folks shouldn’t take it personally.
> 
> I want to make one comment about Babel, or more to the point the DUAL 
> algorithm. I, with one other engineer were the original designers of EIGRP in 
> the early 90s. We worked with Jose Garcia-Luna from SRI/UCSC on implementing 
> the DUAL algorithm in EIGRP.
> 
> Just be careful about the claim that DUAL is loop-free. It is loop-free 
> because the toplogy stays in DUAL acitve-state until it is safe to change, 
> but during that time, packets are black-holed.
> 
> This is not a strike against Babel or me being opposed to it.
> 
> Also, IS-IS can be made to run in unicast-mode and not link-layer multicast 
> if the urge is too great to avoid multicast transmission. We did this with an 
> adjacecny-server model when designing OTV. That is, IIHs are unicasted to a 
> preconfigured DR (ie adjacency-server), which replicates IIHs to all other 
> routers that are discovered. All routers believe they are adjacent to each 
> other just all physical transmission unicast hair-pins to the 
> adjacency-server. There can be more than one adjacency-server and they test 
> liveness to each other so one can be the forwarder.
> 
> Dino
> 
> > On Aug 5, 2015, at 2:22 AM, Sander Steffann <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > All these discussions about the routing protocol are making me despair... 
> > What the *** is wrong here in the IETF? What happened to producing working 
> > solutions and specs? All this discussion about which routing protocol is 
> > capable of doing what, "my protocol is as good as yours", bashing each 
> > other's ideas, twisting each others words. People, this is just pathetic. 
> > There are dozens of routing protocols that could be made to work in 
> > homenet. But we already have one that is working today. With time there 
> > will always be new ideas and improvements. And if we keep waiting for that 
> > we never get anything done. Do we want a 'perfect' protocol in years or do 
> > we want a good solution today? We have what we need: let's move on...
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Sander
> > 
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