On 19 Feb 2014, at 18:32, Dino Farinacci <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Well it is not just theoretical, it can happen as soon as you have two >> egress points, even in active/active mode. >> >> Imagine you have two identical egress points in your network (let say >> that they can both reach the whole Internet) depending on the IGP the >> traffic from a part of the network will go to one and the traffic from >> the other part of the network will go to the second router. >> Unfortunately the set of destination is not the same in both part of >> the network so when you fallback to one router after the outage of the >> other one, you will have misses. >> >> We have evaluated that on our network (that is primary/backup) and >> simulated it as active/active and noticed that the storm would not >> negligible. > > Yes, understand Damien. One has to decide how much machinery one puts in a > protocol for events that don't happen often. > I could offer you a solution to avoid packet drops, but you might not like. It starts with a "b" and finishes with a "uffer" :-) > Dino > _______________________________________________ lisp mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/lisp
