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Re: OSPF multi-level hierarchy: Necessary at all?
From: Vadim Antonov <avg () kotovnik com>
Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 11:35:59 -0700
Alex Zinin <zinin () amt ru> wrote:
We're currently discussing necessity of multi-level hierarchy in OSPF on the WG mail list.
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but the main question is whether there is a demand for it or not.
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 :) --vadim
Current thread:
- OSPF multi-level hierarchy: Necessary at all? Alex Zinin (May 27)
- Re: OSPF multi-level hierarchy: Necessary at all? Alex P. Rudnev (May 27)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: OSPF multi-level hierarchy: Necessary at all? Alex Zinin (May 27)
- Re: OSPF multi-level hierarchy: Necessary at all? Alex Zinin (May 27)
- Re: OSPF multi-level hierarchy: Necessary at all? Alex P. Rudnev (May 27)
- Re: OSPF multi-level hierarchy: Necessary at all? Alex Zinin (May 27)
- Re: OSPF multi-level hierarchy: Necessary at all? Alex P. Rudnev (May 27)
- Re: OSPF multi-level hierarchy: Necessary at all? Vadim Antonov (May 27)
- Re: OSPF multi-level hierarchy: Necessary at all? Alex P. Rudnev (May 27)
- RE: OSPF multi-level hierarchy: Necessary at all? Jessica Yu (May 27)
- Re: OSPF multi-level hierarchy: Necessary at all? Vadim Antonov (May 27)
- Re: OSPF multi-level hierarch: side question Steve Meuse (May 28)
- Re: OSPF multi-level hierarch: side question Alex P. Rudnev (May 28)
- Re: OSPF multi-level hierarch: side question Steve Meuse (May 28)
- Re: OSPF multi-level hierarchy: Necessary at all? Vadim Antonov (May 27)
- Re: OSPF multi-level hierarchy: Necessary at all? Sean Donelan (May 28)
- Re: OSPF multi-level hierarchy: Necessary at all? Alex P. Rudnev (May 28)
- Re: OSPF multi-level hierarchy: Necessary at all? Alex Zinin (May 28)
- Re: OSPF multi-level hierarchy: Necessary at all? Alex P. Rudnev (May 28)
(Thread continues...)