The following sentence should be:
> If it is planned, why the overlay service being switched over as scheduled?

If it is planned, why doesn’t the overlay service be switched over as scheduled?




Aijun Wang
China Telecom

> On Mar 28, 2023, at 19:53, Aijun Wang <wangai...@tsinghua.org.cn> wrote:
> 
> There is no significant benefits to use the prefix unreachable announcement 
> mechanism to transfer the planned maintenance information.
> 
> If it is planned, why the overlay service being switched over as scheduled?
> 
> The PUA/UPA mechanism is mainly for the fast switchover of overlay services 
> upon the accident network failures.
> 
> Please pay more attentions to other aspects of such mechanism.
> 
> Aijun Wang
> China Telecom
> 
>>> On Mar 28, 2023, at 18:51, Peter Psenak 
>>> <ppsenak=40cisco....@dmarc.ietf.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On 28/03/2023 11:41, Aijun Wang wrote:
>>> There is already overload bit to accomplish the maintenance purposes,
>>> Why do you guys repeat such work again?
>> 
>> OL-bit is only propagated inside the area. We are solving 
>> inter-area/inter-domain routing convergence here.
>> 
>> Peter
>> 
>>> Aijun Wang
>>> China Telecom
>>>>> On Mar 28, 2023, at 18:00, Shraddha Hegde 
>>>>> <shraddha=40juniper....@dmarc.ietf.org> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hi Robert,
>>>> 
>>>>> Second, if you say this is needed for BGP free deployments then I 
>>>>> question the merit on the basis that UPA is >ephemeral and expires say in 
>>>>> 120 sec which will not be enough for most planned maintenance work. So if 
>>>>> someone >insists to add UP Flag it should be not just a bit but also a 
>>>>> time or time delta from set UTC where it is expected that >provided 
>>>>> prefix will be down,
>>>> 
>>>> That is a good point that there should be a max-time associated with 
>>>> maintenance.
>>>> 
>>>> I do not think that this needs to be signaled in IGP. It can be a local 
>>>> configuration.
>>>> 
>>>> Rgds
>>>> 
>>>> Shraddha
>>>> 
>>>> Juniper Business Use Only
>>>> 
>>>> *From:* Lsr <lsr-boun...@ietf.org> *On Behalf Of *Robert Raszuk
>>>> *Sent:* Monday, March 27, 2023 1:36 PM
>>>> *To:* lsr <lsr@ietf.org>
>>>> *Subject:* [Lsr] Interdomain UPA & UP Flag
>>>> 
>>>> *[External Email. Be cautious of content]*
>>>> 
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> I would like to get more clarification in respect to extending External 
>>>> LSAs for UPA. Area summary use case is pretty clear - but in case of 
>>>> redistribution (typical src of external LSAs) IMO we are going way too far 
>>>> with this. Let's all keep in mind that this is a pulse designed to trigger 
>>>> upper protocol switchover.
>>>> 
>>>> Needless to say that would work only via one hop by design as 
>>>> redistribution happens via RIB and by definition of UPA unreachable routes 
>>>> are not being installed in RIB in the first place.
>>>> 
>>>> On the apparently relative terms I do not see a need for the UP Flag. 
>>>> First planned maintenance should be solved by BGP protocol and there are 
>>>> already a number of tools in BGP allowing one to do it.
>>>> 
>>>> Second, if you say this is needed for BGP free deployments then I question 
>>>> the merit on the basis that UPA is ephemeral and expires say in 120 sec 
>>>> which will not be enough for most planned maintenance work. So if someone 
>>>> insists to add UP Flag it should be not just a bit but also a time or time 
>>>> delta from set UTC where it is expected that provided prefix will be down,
>>>> 
>>>> Kind regards,
>>>> 
>>>> R.
>>>> 
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> Lsr mailing list
>>>> Lsr@ietf.org
>>>> https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/lsr
>> 

_______________________________________________
Lsr mailing list
Lsr@ietf.org
https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/lsr

Reply via email to