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IGP Scaling and Stability
IGP Scaling and Stability
IGP Scaling and Stability
SPF?
IGP Scaling and Stability
Dave Katz
Overview
History
Components of IGP Convergence
Conclusions
History
1990: Stability, Scalability, Speed, Correctness--
Choose one
First few years spent just getting implementations to
work
Naïve implementations had enough trouble
accomplishing correctness without being complicated by
reality
Prototype-quality software shipped; things tended to
fall apart in really ugly ways when pushed hard
Detection
LSA/LSP Generation
Flooding/Propagation
SPF Calculation
Route Recursion
Route Download
Detection
Hardware detection is vastly preferable
Can be debounced, held down, etc., in or close to
hardware to reduce churn
GE and 10GE use in POPs makes this difficult (since you
need a way to detect a failed path to a neighbor, not just
a failed interface)
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