Hi Aijun, > Just because some mechanism wants to use toplogy information does NOT imply > that it should be part of the routing protocol. > > In this case, load balancing should be an independent mechanism. If it wants > to peek into the LSDB, that would be perfectly acceptable, IMHO. > [WAJ] Current LSDB doesn’t include the aggregated cost that can be used to > select the optimal application server.
So please feel free to add whatever costs you want to circulate to whatever other load balancing protocol you come up with. > If they are separated, the router should do the SPF calculation twice. Using > the constrained SPF/flexalgo to achieve such optimal goal is certainly better > than calculate twice. I don’t understand or believe this. We have been running multiple SPFs since the early days of TE. This is Not A Big Deal. Tony
_______________________________________________ Lsr mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/lsr
