And one more question - apologies if it was already discussed and I missed
it.

How will the PE / edge router receive information describing current (for
example) load of the compute or LB sitting behind the switch on one of the
VLANs ?

Many thx,
R.


On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 4:08 PM Robert Raszuk <[email protected]> wrote:

> HI Aijun,
>
> I am simply highlighting three points -
>
> * link is not the same as a leaf - prefix of the subnet
>
> * Today PE usually aggregates all subnets of VLANs into just one or few
> supernets. Links can not be aggregated.
>
> * Subnets are static. Here we are discussing adding dynamic data into this
> new amount of (stub) link information.
>
> Kind regards,
> R.
>
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 4:03 PM Aijun Wang <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi, Robert:
>>
>> Aijun Wang
>> China Telecom
>>
>> On Jan 13, 2022, at 22:29, Robert Raszuk <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> 
>>
>>
>>> [WAJ] VLAN interface is the logical interfaces that connected to servers
>>> that are out side of the IGP domain. It is also different from the inter-AS
>>> link that described in RFC5316 and RFC5392.
>>> Some information that related to the attached severs or some policy to
>>> these server can be applied to these kind stub link.
>>>
>>
>>
>> Let's observe that there can be 4K VLANs on each trunk interface on a
>> given PE. There can be multiple trunks attached to each edge node going to
>> switches then in form of subnets to physical or virtual computes/pods/VMs
>> etc... .
>>
>> Are we ready to take the product of (# of PEs) * (N trunks from each PE)
>> * (Max 4K VLANs)  in the form of new links into even local area IGP ?
>> Especially as we are learning that some of the values carried may be
>> dynamic in nature.
>>
>>
>> [WAJ]If there are so many of servers attached around all the PEs, we
>> certainly need all of the associated servers’ prefixes. Right?
>> If you want to some traffic engineering from/to these servers, or some
>> policies on the boundary, you should also need additional attributes of
>> them.
>>
>> Stub-Link TLV just the container for these information.
>>
>>
>> Thx,
>> R.
>>
>>
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