[40331] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MPLS VPNs or not?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Raszuk)
Tue Aug 7 11:33:13 2001
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Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2001 08:29:54 -0700
From: Robert Raszuk <raszuk@cisco.com>
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To: Vijay Gill <vijay@umbc.edu>
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Vijay,
I am not defending IOS bugs or any particular implementation - I am
defending the architecture.
R.
> Vijay Gill wrote:
>
> --On Tuesday, August 07, 2001 08:11 -0700 Robert Raszuk <raszuk@cisco.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Besides for those individuals who have problems with maintaining a
> > sinlge RIB with IGP routes I would higly advise a caution in deploying
> > an mpls-vpn service or even touching the routers :).
>
> It isn't quite the individuals who are having problems maintaining a single
> RIB with IGP routes, it looks like the software is having trouble keeping
> its sanity. Seeing that it took ~ 12 months to track down some iBGP
> withdrawl bugs and a single fence post error in an AS path sanity check
> took down a significant portion of the internet, I suggest perhaps one must
> first put ones own house in order before going out and throwing stones at
> others.
>
> thanks
>
> /vijay
