Hi Tony,
It seems that splitting L1 area A1 into two L1 areas A11 and A12 cannot be
automated without people's planning. Some people need to spend their time in
deciding where is the boundary between the two areas and selecting a router in
the backbone domain for Attach bit for one of the two areas. These corresponds
to step 1) and 3) for using Areas.
Best Regards,
Huaimo
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Subject: Re: [Lsr] LSR WG Adoption Poll for "IS-IS Topology-Transparent Zone" -
draft-chen-isis-ttz-11.txt
Hi Huaimo,
Assume that a big L1 area (say Area A1) is connected to backbone domain.
Let us compare TTZ and Areas for scalability.
Using TTZ, we need two steps below:
1) configure a piece of Area A1, named P1, as a zone; and
2) transfer P1 to a virtual node using one command or two.
Using Areas, we need four steps below to split Area A1 into two L1 areas
A11 and A12:
1) configure the edges between A11 and A12 as L2/L1 to backbone domain;
2) add/configure a new area address on the routers in target Area A12;
3) configure Attach bit for A11 or A12; and
4) delete the old area address from the routers in Area A12.
Using TTZ is simpler than using Areas.
I’m not quite sure I follow you. Are you arguing that simplicity is achieved
through the minimum number of configuration steps?
If so, I’d like to introduce you to Arista CVP, our management platform, where
all of this can be easily automated: 1 step.
Tony
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