Hi Peter, Keshava, 
I agree wholeheartedly with Peter. We've never standardized redistribution 
policy in the past and there is no reason to do it now. 
Thanks,
Acee
On Nov 17, 2010, at 5:19 AM, Peter Psenak wrote:

> Keshava,
> 
> I do not see a reason why this needs to be standardized, as this 
> represents a local behavior of the PE and does not pose any 
> interoperability issues.
> 
> thanks,
> Peter
> 
> On 17.11.2010 7:46, Keshava.Ayanur wrote:
>> Peter,
>> 
>> Instead of leaving this to implementation, it is better to define the exact
>> behavior/rules how to be handled.
>> 
>> Else there may be many possibilities like
>>      a)aggregation based on backbone area range,
>>      b)on area-id map, corresponding area range ..
>> 
>> Keshava
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
>> Rajesh Shetty
>> Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2010 10:38 AM
>> To: 'Peter Psenak'
>> Cc: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: [OSPF] OSPF::aggregating huge number 'summary LSA" originated
>> AT PE ..
>> 
>> Peter,
>> 
>> When PE report the route as Type3 LSA to CE (redistributed, might be huge in
>> number), In this scenario is there a good mechanism to aggregate Type3 LSAs
>> at PE before sending to CE.
>> 
>> For such kind of Type3 Aggregation should we use backbone area range since
>> PE router is considered as integral part of OSPF backbone?
>> 
>> Thanks
>> Rajesh
>> 
>> 
>> 
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
>> Peter Psenak
>> Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2010 4:46 PM
>> To: Keshava.Ayanur
>> Cc: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: [OSPF] OSPF::aggregating huge number 'summary LSA" originated
>> AT PE ..
>> 
>> Keshava,
>> 
>> it's up to the implementation how it handles the aggregation of the BGP
>> redistributed prefixes on PE. The most obvious choice is to treat it the
>> same way as regular redistribution in which case an external LSA is
>> generated for the summary itself.
>> 
>> RFC4577 only specifies the behavior when no aggregation is done on PE:
>> 
>>     In the following, we specify what is reported, in OSPF LSAs, by the
>>     PE to the CE, assuming that the PE is not configured to do any
>>     further summarization or filtering of the routing information before
>>     reporting it to the CE."
>> 
>> thanks,
>> Peter
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 16.11.2010 11:33, Keshava.Ayanur wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> Any thoughts about aggregating the "Summary LSA's' originated in PE
>>> which was redistributed from BGP .
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> 
>>> Keshava.A.K.
>>> 
>>> 
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