> Q1: are you using this information to determine the routing to the network? > On one hand, such advertisement does not effect on the normal SPF computation > and may be useful for traffic engineering. For example, for IOAM service, if > the HbH Processing Action of Node/Link is assigned to a slow processing > plane, the Node or Link should be excluded for path computation. If the HbH > Processing Action of Node/Link is ignore all extension Options header, the > Node/Link can be used as the normal IPv6 transit node/link. If the HbH > Processing Action of Node/Link is skip to Next extension Options header (e.g. > Routing Header), the Node/Link can be considered as Endpoints in SRv6 > routing. On the other hand, such advertisement is useful for entities to > determine specific services encoded in HbH options header can be deployed in > a given path. > > Q2: can you use the link color to compute paths? > In the above, I answered, taking advantage of this advertisement, the exact > action taken by Node or Link to process HbH options header can be determined > (defined in Action Flag field), which can be useful for traffic engineering. > Hence, such advertisement is not only used to determine whether the HbH > options header supported by Node/Link or not. But the link color cannot > exactly indicate the exact action.
This suggests that you’re missing one bit of information. Thus, could you use two link colors to differentiate between the two? Tony _______________________________________________ Lsr mailing list Lsr@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/lsr
