[c-nsp] Conditional advertise-map

[Heath Jones]

Cheers for the link, there seems to be a fair bit about this on rrg mailing
list..

I don't quite know if he is talking about the same method though. A lot of
what i'm reading over there is talking about very non-deterministic methods.
There's a few ideas floating around thats for sure!


On 15 September 2010 19:33, Peter Rathlev <peter at rathlev.dk> wrote:

> On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 19:23 +0100, Heath Jones wrote:
> > Carrier grade equipment means nothing more than heavy metal boxes
> > containing fast interfaces,
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> I didn't reveal what I imply by "carrier grade", and I certainly would
> not imply "stable" or "works as advertised" as being natural
> candidates. :-)
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> By "carrier grade" I meant equipment performing "hardware" forwarding,
> thus giving certain guaranteed limits for processing delay.
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> I'm not sure "carrier grade" is that good a term though, hence the
> quotation marks. I don't work at a carrier or even an ISP. We're just an
> enterprise, government healthcare in DK. We still need and use "hardware
> forwarding" devices though.
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> > I'd love to hear some technical reasons why this cannot / is not /
> > will not be done. I think its a good idea, clearly a number of people
> > have had it.
>
> To quote Lincoln Dale from Cisco: "it gets nondeterministic very very
> quickly and does not scale from a control plane perspective.". Take a
> look at
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> http://www.mail-archive.com/cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net/msg29079.html
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> Peter
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