> ok, I'm fine adding some text for your case.

Thx Peter !

It is not "my use case" but ability to trigger UPA for make-before-break
which I think always is rather a good thing.

Cheers,
R.


On Wed, Apr 23, 2025 at 4:40 PM Peter Psenak <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Robert,
>
> On 23/04/2025 16:35, Robert Raszuk wrote:
>
> Hi Peter,
>
>> If the egress PE is the only BGP NH, then reacting to max-metric or
>> OL-bit set would make some BGP destinations unreachable.
>>
>>
> Well this entirely depends on how one reacts on UPA if UPA is signalling
> the only one left BGP path/NH as down irrespective of the trigger. Does it
> stop the service to the destination or not ...
>
> If there are alternate paths the best path can install new next hop.
>
> If there are no alternate paths I would rather keep one installed active -
> for example to address the case where one ABR can still reach egress PE and
> the other one generated UPA.
>
> So why not trigger UPA in such cases to hint him to switch to alternate
>> next hops if available ?
>>
>> I'm not saying it can not be done. The implementation can chose to
>> advertise the UPA for the summary component prefix if the such prefix
>> metric in the source area/domain crosses certain value or if the prefix
>> originator is overloaded.
>>
> But this would make it not compliant with current text in section 4 which
> was the main point of my question. So why not leave the door a bit open for
> it in the spec ?
>
> ok, I'm fine adding some text for your case.
>
> thanks,
> Peter
>
>
>
> Thx,
> R.
>
>
>
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