> On 2 Jan 2015, at 01:54, Jeff Tantsura <[email protected]> wrote: > > You don't need LDP on RR as long as clients support "not on lsp" flag > (different implementation have different names for it) > There are more and more reasons to run RR on a non router HW, there are many > reasons to still run commercial code base, mostly feature set and resilience.
And test coverage. As Saku alluded to earlier in the thread, rr<->rr-client outages are painful. I’ve certainly seen a number of them caused by inter-op issues between implementations. Running at least one RR which matches the code-base of the client means that at least you’re likely to have fallen within the test-cases of that vendor’s implementation. r.
