Enke,

Not really ... unless you force it by configuration most specific route is
used to resolve your next hops.

Clearly everything works fine from your list with no loopbacks everywhere -
except summary route is used instead.

Best,
R.


On Fri, Oct 15, 2021 at 7:21 PM Enke Chen <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi, Folks:
>
> As I recall, the loopbacks and their metrics need to be propagated
> individually to the whole network (including leaking from Level 2 to Level
> 1) for the following reasons:
>
> 1) Path selection: in case there are multiple Level 2 /  Level 1 routers
> in an area.
> 2) Export IGP metric : when the IGP metrics are exported to BGP as MED for
> symmetric routing.
>
> Not sure if there is still a problem to be solved.
>
> Regards,
>
> -- Enke
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Tony Li <[email protected]>
> To: "Les Ginsberg (ginsberg)" <[email protected]>
> Cc: Gyan Mishra <[email protected]>, lsr <[email protected]>
> Bcc:
> Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2021 22:50:33 -0700
> Subject: Re: [Lsr] "Prefix Unreachable Announcement" and "IS-IS and OSPF
> Extension for Event Notification"
>
> Les,
>
> If you’re advertising loopbacks that are outside of the summarized space,
> then you end up with reachability and liveness.  Yes, there’s a cost in
> scalability… it ain’t free.
>
> Tony
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