One correction:

“It should be expanded further” should be “it shouldn’t be expanded further”

Aijun Wang
China Telecom

> On Oct 13, 2022, at 18:53, Aijun Wang <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi, Acee and Peter:
> 
> I think you all misunderstood the intent of his scenario.
> The correct understanding are the followings:
> 1) When aggregate route is configured in the ABR, the specified detail route 
> should be withdrawn.
> 2) ABR can withdraw the advertised LSA that describes the specific detail 
> route, via premature mechanism(MaxAge or LSInfinity, the former is preferred 
> according to RFC2328)
> 3) But, withdrawn such specific LSA doesn’t mean the corresponding detail 
> route unreachable——This destination can be reached via the aggregate route 
> advertised by ABR instead.
> 
> This is the original usage of LSInfinity defined in RFC2327. It should be 
> expanded further.
> 
> How to apply it in RFC8362 is another issue, as indicated my responses in 
> another thread.
> 
> In summary, again, we should constrain or depreciate the confusion usages of 
> LSInfinity.
> 
> Aijun Wang
> China Telecom
> 
>> On Oct 13, 2022, at 18:07, Acee Lindem (acee) 
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Zhibo, 
>> 
>> On 10/13/22, 2:26 AM, "Lsr on behalf of Huzhibo" <[email protected] on 
>> behalf of [email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>   Hi LSR:
>> 
>>   LSInfinity
>>   The metric value indicating that the destination described by an
>>   LSA is unreachable. Used in summary-LSAs and AS-external-LSAs
>> 
>>   I want to clarify the meaning of unreachable in LSifinity, 
>>   Assume that a node advertise specific route of 1.1.1.1/32, and an 
>> aggregate route 1.1.0.0/16 is configured.
>>   This node should premature aging of the 1.1.1.1/32 LSA.
>>   If this node using LSInfinity metric instead of prematuring aging, route 
>> 1.1.1.1/32 is still reachable.
>>   Therefore, the "unreachable" described by LSifinity is not really 
>> unreachable.
>> 
>> If your OSPF implementation includes unreachable LSAs in the summary cost 
>> computation, it is indeed broken.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Acee
>> 
>>   Thanks
>>   Zhibo hu
>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Lsr [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Peter Psenak
>>> Sent: Wednesday, October 5, 2022 5:32 PM
>>> To: [email protected]
>>> Subject: [Lsr] RFC 8362 and LSInfinity
>>> 
>>> Hi Folks,
>>> 
>>> metric of LSInfinity (0xFFFFFF) has been defined in RFC2328:
>>> 
>>> LSInfinity
>>>        The metric value indicating that the destination described by an
>>>        LSA is unreachable. Used in summary-LSAs and AS-external-LSAs
>>> as
>>>        an alternative to premature aging (see Section 14.1). It is
>>>        defined to be the 24-bit binary value of all ones: 0xffffff.
>>> 
>>> RFC5340 inherited it from RFC2328:
>>> 
>>> Appendix B.  Architectural Constants
>>> 
>>>   Architectural constants for the OSPF protocol are defined in
>>> Appendix
>>>   B of [OSPFV2].  The only difference for OSPF for IPv6 is that
>>>   DefaultDestination is encoded as a prefix with length 0 (see
>>>   Appendix A.4.1).
>>> 
>>> Both RFC2328 and RFC5340 used 16 bits metric for intra-area prefix
>>> reachability, so the LSInfinity was not applicable for intra-area prefixes.
>>> 
>>> RFC8362 defines 24-bit metric for all prefix reachability TLVs -
>>> Intra-Area-Prefix TLV, Inter-Area-Prefix TLV, External-Prefix TLV.
>>> Al
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