Hi, Tony: How the receiver judge the leader has stopped advertising the Area Leader sub-TLV? Do you need some timers? >From the current discussion, I think the explicit instruction that proposed by >Huaimo is more acceptable.
Best Regards. Aijun Wang Network R&D and Operation Support Department China Telecom Corporation Limited Beijing Research Institute,Beijing, China. -----邮件原件----- 发件人: Tony Li [mailto:tony1ath...@gmail.com] 发送时间: 2019年5月27日 12:20 收件人: Robert Raszuk 抄送: lsr@ietf.org 主题: Re: [Lsr] Option B from "Migration between normal flooding and flooding reduction" Hi Robert, > The current draft is pretty robust in terms of area leader election. It also > says that "Any node that is capable MAY advertise its eligibility to become > Area Leader” Correct. This can be all systems. It can be one. For redundancy, a few would be sensible. > With that can you confirm the procedure to "resign" as area leader ? Stop advertising the Area Leader sub-TLV. It’s that simple. > Especially that under those circumstances just having active area leader to > resign clearly is not enough to change given flooding scheme. If there are multiple potential area leaders, then all of them would have to resign. > In some deployments all eligible nodes may advertise such capability which in > turn the "resign" procedure would require NMS action to disable such > capability by configuration and re-flooding it. Not that I am advocating it > nor see need for complex migration procedures, but just would like to better > understand the "resign" part. Correct, this is rightfully an NMS operation. Tony _______________________________________________ Lsr mailing list Lsr@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/lsr _______________________________________________ Lsr mailing list Lsr@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/lsr
