[24181] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: OSPF multi-level hierarchy: Necessary at all?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex P. Rudnev)
Thu May 27 14:47:35 1999
Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 22:43:09 +0400 (MSD)
From: "Alex P. Rudnev" <alex@Relcom.EU.net>
To: Vadim Antonov <avg@kotovnik.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu, zinin@amt.ru
In-Reply-To: <199905271835.LAA21804@kitty.kotovnik.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
>
> I guess the answer is pretty much not. The amount of interior
> routing information in a properly designed backbone is quite
> small even if there is no two-layer abstraction. (Now, the
> _exterior_ information is aplenty, but OSPF is useless for it
> anyway).
>
> If someone proposed simplifying and cleaning up OSPF i'd be
> quite for it. Building a protocol allowing to get rid of
> iBGP hack would also help :)
Yep, it's the main headache for ISP, just as a lack of control ober EBGP
(I can't control incoming traffic except tricky AS-PREPENT and _working
for one ISP only_ COMMUNITIES).
Through if someone build distributed (withouth one AS and one back-bone)
model of OSPF - may be, it's interesting.
>
> --vadim
>
>
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