Hi, Robert:

The two cases I listed for requiring the individual loopbacks were the ones
we faced at InternetMCI many years ago when we were investigating using
both L2+L1 (prior to L2 route leaking). It's not sufficiently accurate to
rely on the aggregates in these cases.

Thanks.   -- Enke




On Fri, Oct 15, 2021 at 10:37 AM Robert Raszuk <rob...@raszuk.net> wrote:

> Enke,
>
> Not really ... unless you force it by configuration most specific route is
> used to resolve your next hops.
>
> Clearly everything works fine from your list with no loopbacks everywhere
> - except summary route is used instead.
>
> Best,
> R.
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 15, 2021 at 7:21 PM Enke Chen <enc...@paloaltonetworks.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi, Folks:
>>
>> As I recall, the loopbacks and their metrics need to be propagated
>> individually to the whole network (including leaking from Level 2 to Level
>> 1) for the following reasons:
>>
>> 1) Path selection: in case there are multiple Level 2 /  Level 1 routers
>> in an area.
>> 2) Export IGP metric : when the IGP metrics are exported to BGP as MED
>> for symmetric routing.
>>
>> Not sure if there is still a problem to be solved.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> -- Enke
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Tony Li <tony...@tony.li>
>> To: "Les Ginsberg (ginsberg)" <ginsb...@cisco.com>
>> Cc: Gyan Mishra <hayabusa...@gmail.com>, lsr <lsr@ietf.org>
>> Bcc:
>> Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2021 22:50:33 -0700
>> Subject: Re: [Lsr] "Prefix Unreachable Announcement" and "IS-IS and OSPF
>> Extension for Event Notification"
>>
>> Les,
>>
>> If you’re advertising loopbacks that are outside of the summarized space,
>> then you end up with reachability and liveness.  Yes, there’s a cost in
>> scalability… it ain’t free.
>>
>> Tony
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