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MPLSOAM BOF meeting draft minutes

  • From: "David Allan" <dallan@nortelnetworks.com>
  • Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 12:47:34 -0500
  • Cc: mpls@UU.NET
  • X-Orig: <dallan@americasm01.nt.com>

Title: RE: MPLSOAM BOF meeting draft minutes
Semi-broken boxes seems to be a leading cause of I-Ds containing the term "graceful restart" ;-)
 
IMHO the more you decouple control plane and forwarding plane behavior so that the control plane (if present) can proxy FM for the forwarding plane, the more you need fault management unique to the forwarding plane. This is independent of buggy code that doesn't have the decency to just die. T'would be nice to think link layer failure and control adjaceny failure were all you needed to worry about.
 
We don't seem to be on that path and crossed the line of having to deal with more subtle problems long ago, and the trend is to consider the forwarding plane more robust than the control plane. I don't quite understand some folks state of denial....
 
cheers
Dave