Our Proposal
Provide Explicit Marking to Specific IGP Packets that Quickly Distinguish Them from Other IGP and IP Packets
- Why? Overload Control Mechanisms May Be Developed Based on Prioritized Treatment of these Packets
- How? Some Special Field in IP packets
Candidate IGP Packets for Special Marking and Prioritized Treatment
- Hello (Reduce Chance of Missing Router-Dead Intervals)
- LSA Acknowledgement (Reduce Retransmissions)
- LSA Carrying Bad News
- Faster Triggering of SPF Calculation
- Reduce Excessive Trunk Flapping During a Storm