[122551] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BIRD vs Quagga
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Tue Feb 16 20:19:46 2010
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 10:19:05 +0900
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
In-Reply-To: <4B7B0D9A.3010401@foobar.org>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> medium-long term, community based route-server filtering has no future.
> There will be two reasons for its demise: it cannot easily accommodate
> asn32 and it does not allow predetermined filtering and hence sane
> loc-rib instance management.
i would add decades of bad anecdotes where the data plane is not
congruent with the control plane. in general, when plane N is not
congruent with plane N+1, management and debugging are problematic.
randy
