Re: [Lsr] I-D Action: draft-ietf-lsr-igp-flex-algo-reverse-affinity-02.txt

2024-03-21 Thread Peter Psenak
Robert, On 21/03/2024 20:52, Robert Raszuk wrote: Peter, Ok I think what you are proposing is pretty granular and that is fine. We may still disagree if link should be used at all if there are errors on this link in *ANY* direction. So my suggestion here is to have that support build in as

Re: [Lsr] I-D Action: draft-ietf-lsr-igp-flex-algo-reverse-affinity-02.txt

2024-03-21 Thread Robert Raszuk
Peter, Ok I think what you are proposing is pretty granular and that is fine. We may still disagree if link should be used at all if there are errors on this link in *ANY* direction. So my suggestion here is to have that support build in as well in the nodes computing the topology and not always

Re: [Lsr] I-D Action: draft-ietf-lsr-igp-flex-algo-reverse-affinity-02.txt

2024-03-21 Thread Peter Psenak
Hi Robert, On 21/03/2024 18:26, Robert Raszuk wrote: Hey Peter, Why do we need the notion of "reverse direction" to be any different then the notion of forward direction from node B to A on a link ? For a link A->B, we typically use attributes in the direction A->B.

Re: [Lsr] I-D Action: draft-ietf-lsr-igp-flex-algo-reverse-affinity-02.txt

2024-03-21 Thread Robert Raszuk
Hey Peter, > Why do we need the notion of "reverse direction" to be any different then > the notion of forward direction from node B to A on a link ? > > For a link A->B, we typically use attributes in the direction A->B. .e.g. > link delay, link affinities, etc. > > The reason why we want to be

Re: [Lsr] I-D Action: draft-ietf-lsr-igp-flex-algo-reverse-affinity-02.txt

2024-03-21 Thread Peter Psenak
Robert, On 21/03/2024 17:52, Robert Raszuk wrote: Hi, > When Flex-Algorithm calculation processes the link A to B, it may look at > the 'colors' of the link in the reverse direction, e.g., link B to A. This would > allow the operator to exclude such link from the Flex-Algorithm topology.

Re: [Lsr] I-D Action: draft-ietf-lsr-igp-flex-algo-reverse-affinity-02.txt

2024-03-21 Thread Robert Raszuk
Hi, > When Flex-Algorithm calculation processes the link A to B, it may look at > the 'colors' of the link in the reverse direction, e.g., link B to A. This would > allow the operator to exclude such link from the Flex-Algorithm topology. Why do we need the notion of "reverse direction" to be