Re: Lossy cogent p2p experiences?

[Lukas Tribus <lukas () ltri eu>]

On Fri, 1 Sept 2023 at 15:55, Saku Ytti <saku () ytti fi> wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Sept 2023 at 16:46, Mark Tinka <mark@tinka.africa> wrote:
>
> > Yes, this was our conclusion as well after moving our core to PTX1000/10001.
>
> Personally I would recommend turning off LSR payload heuristics,
> because there is no accurate way for LSR to tell what the label is
> carrying, and wrong guess while rare will be extremely hard to root
> cause, because you will never hear it, because the person suffering
> from it is too many hops away from problem being in your horizon.
> I strongly believe edge imposing entropy or fat is the right way to
> give LSR hashing hints.

If you need to load-balance labelled IP traffic though, all your edge
devices would have to impose entropy/fat.

On the hand a workaround at the edge at least for EoMPLS would be to
enable control-word.


Lukas