Re: RE : Proposed strategy for Inter-area/AS

[Jean Philippe Vasseur <jvasseur@cisco.com>]

Hi Fabio,

At 09:48 AM 4/26/2004 +0200, ricciato wrote:
> Hi JL,
>
> just a quick remark: would it make sense in this case to advertise only a 
> selected subset of the N virtual links (say the two with most residual bw) ?

I do not think so ... think about all the constraints, which for some of 
them cannot be easily summarized (affinity), hence N becomes N*K  where K 
might very well be a constantly increasing number. Moroever, this would 
require to run many CSPFs on the ABR/L1L2.

JP.

> ciao
> fabio
>
> LE ROUX Jean-Louis FTRD/DAC/LAN wrote:
>
> > Let's assume that there are N distinct paths from ABR A to a destination 
> > X, each with a distinct bandwidth and
> > distinct admin-group (a path admin group being expressed as a logical AND 
> > of the link admin groups along the path)
> > How can you summarize such topology ? Actually you need to advertise N 
> > virtual links, each with a distinct admin-group and available bandwidth.