[c-nsp] OSPF point-to-point vs dr/bdr

[Rodney Dunn]

On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 07:35:54PM +0200, sthaug at nethelp.no wrote:
> > "ethernet point-to-point"
> > 
> > It doesn't do what it sounds like it does.
> > 
> > We are having internal discussions around having a single CLI
> > to simulate p2p behavior.
> > 
> > What about if at the first pass you had to manually configure
> > the next hop ip/mac address manually?
> 
> It's not obvious to me that this would be an improvement over having
> to explicitly configure point-to-point for OSPF or IS-IS?

Agree. The idea was it would be a lower level configuration that
any upper layer protocol would recognize and act accordingly.

I can see where you are coming from that unless the configuration
was much more simple the overhead isn't worth the improvement...if
you call it that.

The static way was simpler than relying on dynamic learning via
some other l2 means.

Rodney

> 
> Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug at nethelp.no