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Re: [Idr] Progressing draft-bhatia-bgp-multiple-next-hops-01.txt



At 8:33 PM +0100 8/24/06, Paul Jakma wrote:
Our point therefore is that we should simply use next-hop as this additional path-identity, as it is emminently suited to the task.

I think this is the single interesting point in contention: whether or not next hop is always suitable for the task of uniquely identifying a path.


Rather than responding individually to your further points about selection of path identifier, I'll just point to Enke:

At 11:19 AM -0700 8/24/06, Enke Chen wrote:
Let us give a trivial algorithm:

For a prefix, allocate the path identifiers for paths sequentially starting from 0, do not reuse until it wraps (that will take many many years).

--John

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