Greg –

The obvious issue is scale. Since you need a full mesh you are talking about 
N**2 behavior – so it doesn’t take many nodes to require thousands of BFD 
sessions.

In terms of detect time, we are trying to get an order of magnitude improvement 
from normal BGP session timers – so we are aiming for a modest number of 
seconds.

   Les


From: Greg Mirsky <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2022 1:30 PM
To: Les Ginsberg (ginsberg) <[email protected]>
Cc: Tony Li <[email protected]>; Christian Hopps <[email protected]>; Robert 
Raszuk <[email protected]>; Aijun Wang <[email protected]>; Shraddha 
Hegde <[email protected]>; Hannes Gredler <[email protected]>; lsr 
<[email protected]>; Peter Psenak (ppsenak) <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Lsr] BGP vs PUA/PULSE

Hi Les,
thank you for bringing the real-life scenarios to the discussion. In your 
opinion, what prevents an operator from monitoring a remote PE using a 
multi-hop BFD? Do you have an estimated number of such sessions each PE must 
handle? What could be the required guaranteed failure detection time?

Best regards,
Greg

On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 1:08 PM Les Ginsberg (ginsberg) 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Chris/Tony –

We have received requests from real customers who both need to summarize AND 
would like better response time to loss of reachability to individual nodes.
If they could operate at the necessary scale without summarizing they would 
have already – so telling customers to simply make sure they don’t use 
summaries isn’t helpful.

There are then two ways to respond:

1)Sorry, when you use summaries you lose the ability to receive state 
information about individual prefixes covered by the summary. There is nothing 
we can do to help you.

This seems to be what the two of you are saying.

2)We can provide a way to improve response time for the loss of reachability to 
individual destinations covered by a summary, but its use will be limited to 
isolated failures. Failures which affect a significant number of destinations 
at the same time will realize no benefit from the solution. If this limitation 
is acceptable then we have proposals that we think will be useful.

That’s what we are trying to do.

   Les



From: Tony Li <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> On Behalf 
Of Tony Li
Sent: Monday, January 3, 2022 1:09 PM
To: Christian Hopps <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Cc: Peter Psenak (ppsenak) <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>; Les 
Ginsberg (ginsberg) <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>; Robert 
Raszuk <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>; Shraddha Hegde 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>; Aijun Wang 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>; Hannes Gredler 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>; lsr 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Subject: Re: [Lsr] BGP vs PUA/PULSE



On Jan 3, 2022, at 11:23 AM, Christian Hopps 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

And I'm saying if a prefix is important enough to merit a bunch of new protocol 
extensions and state, then it's important enough to simply be left out of the 
summarization in the first place.

And then people get what they want, w/o protocol changes/upgrades, and it's 
using time tested and hardened IGP code and designs.


+1

T

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