> As mentioned elsewhere, I tend to perceive I2RS's impact on the network as
> being similar to that of a routing protocol.  If I want something I do to
a given
> device to propagate, the state that is injected must either be suitable
for
> injection into another routing protocol (redistribute into BGP, or IGP,
e.g.) or
> must be fully local.
> 
> We will have cases for both.
> 
> For Sri's point, if I inject state in to router A and it overlaps with
state in
> router B, it better be because that state had arrived via a routing
protocol.  In
> such a case, the interaction between I2RS and the protocol would already
be
> defined.

This is the correct way to see this problem -- we don't want to inject
complex and fancy "stuff" into I2RS to handle every conceivable
overlap/conflict/etc. We are injecting routing information into a local RIB
which is then distributed through normal routing -- there are already rules
in place to handle overlapping information coming from two different routing
protocols on every platform that runs more than one routing protocol.
Devices from different vendors running multiple routing processes already
interoperate on today's networks.

Let's not invent new solutions to a problem that has already been solved
with real deployed code.

:-)

Russ



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