The MPLS WG Archive

[Markus Jork <mjork@avici.com>]

Bora,

> > your option (1) will work when you only have a single link (which may
> > be unnumbered) between the routers. Using router IDs in the
> > ERO may also be useful in the presence of multiple links when you
> > don't care which of the multiple links between a pair of routers will
> > be used.
> >
> 
> Thanks for pointing out the obvious which I have already stated in my previous
> email. Next time, you may want to actually read the message before jumping on
> the trigger ;-)

Yes, one of us should have read your previous message more thoroughly :-)
I'm sure you knew all this but you did write just the opposite in
your message, namely that option (1) does *not* work with unnumbered
links:

> 1) Put in the router ID of the routers. This does not work for cases
> when routers have multiple links and for unnumbered interfaces.

This is why I felt compelled to state the obvious...

Markus