-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -- "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net> wrote:

Why do you think BGP was supposed to find the remaining path?

And to be less verbose -- let's remember that IP-layer notification (specifically BGP) as a certain "ships-in-the-night" characteristic with link-layer availability. Protocol time-outs and all that stuff (BGP is not a LSP, per se). What we have here... blah... is a situation which is designed to work around the fact that failures in a certain substrate of the protocol stack are not (and cannot be) communicated directly to another adjoining layer. Welcome to the Internet. - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.2 (Build 2014) wj8DBQFGwpp9q1pz9mNUZTMRAtZ1AKCyflceDo+heHEY4qEL5Y1MHkdvjACg7W6c gvAIMH9rBLu7qlLZO182R5M= =nc2o -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/