27 May
1999
27 May
'99
2:35 p.m.
Alex Zinin <zinin@amt.ru> wrote:
We're currently discussing necessity of multi-level hierarchy in OSPF on the WG mail list. ... 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