Hi Stewart,

It sounds good to me, except for the proposed tie breaker mechanism. As you 
know, today there is no existing mechanism for LDP to advertise the TLDP 
listening IP address in the IGP. So in short/mid term rLFA deployment, no IGP 
solution would be available. So the draft must propose a last resort "working" 
tie breaker. IMHO, using the lowest numerical value would be a very bad idea 
... because this has no sense (just tie break, but without any insurance that 
the chosen prefix would be good)

In order to bring more insurance, at least, I think the the tie breaker must 
check that the prefix used is an internal one (when possible ...) and is a /32. 
 I don't think we could make something more precise because otherwise we would 
need to address IGP protocol specifities (TLVs, LSAs ... fields to check...). 

Thoughts ?



-----Message d'origine-----
De : Stewart Bryant [mailto:[email protected]] 
Envoyé : lundi 28 octobre 2013 19:25
À : LITKOWSKI Stephane DTF/DERX; Hannes Gredler
Cc : [email protected]; rogeriomariano; [email protected]
Objet : Re: I-D Action: draft-ietf-rtgwg-remote-lfa-02.txt

How about the following text:

To establish an targeted LDP session with a candidate PQ node the repairing 
node (S) needs to know what IP address PQ is willing to use for targeted LDP 
sessions. Ideally this is provided by PQ advertising this address in the IGP in 
use. Which address is used, how this is advertised in the IGP, and whether this 
is a special IP address or an IP address also used for some other purpose is 
out of scope for this document and must be specified in an IGP specific RFC.

In the absence of a protocol to learn the prefered IP address for targetted 
LDP, a tie-breaking mechanism is required.  Unless otherwise configured, an LSR 
should attempt a targeted LDP session with the IP address with the lowest 
numerical value advertised by the target LSR. To determine the lowest numerical 
value the address is taken in network byte order and cast to an integer of 
appropriate size.

(in case you are wondering about the appropriate size, it to have common
v4 and v6 text)

- Stewart


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