RE: [RPRWG] Wait To Restore
Manav,
How you set your WTR timer is up to you. If you want to have an exponential
backoff each time it goes off, you can do that. If you want it the same each
time, that's fine. It doesn't matter. Regardless of what you choose, when
you hold the span in WTR, the other side still "sees" it as being down (with
a state of WTR). The fact that it is an independent decision for each
station does not cause any problems for any other stations, any more than
the fact that the span is down.
jl
-----Original Message-----
From: Manav Bhatia [mailto:manav@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 9:07 PM
To: John Lemon; stds-802-17@xxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [RPRWG] Wait To Restore
John,
After the link has flapped certain nos of times (or whatever the criteria
is) we declare the link to be down i.e we damp its coming up believing that
it is unstable and can go down any time. We then observe that the link has
been stable for quite some time now .. so when do we make it come up again
i.e when will the other links start hearing from it?
If its left to the vendor to do that then i am afraid we can have some
problems.
/Manav
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Lemon" <JLemon@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "'Manav Bhatia'" <manav@xxxxxxxxxxx>; <stds-802-17@xxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 9:02 AM
Subject: RE: [RPRWG] Wait To Restore
| Manav,
|
| If one side of a span declares it down (due to flapping or any other
reason)
| the opposite side will learn both from the control message sent the other
| way and also from the lack of keep alives. There is no interoperability
| issue here.
|
| jl
|
| -----Original Message-----
| From: Manav Bhatia [mailto:manav@xxxxxxxxxxx]
| Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 7:54 PM
| To: John Lemon; stds-802-17@xxxxxxxx
| Subject: Re: [RPRWG] Wait To Restore
|
|
| Hi John,
| If damping a flapping link is not standardized and if it is left for the
| vendors to implement it the way the like then we *can* experience a lot
of
| problems in interoperatibility between different vendors. This can create
a
| havoc in the routing protocols. Suppose link A is flapping and vendor X
| implements this link flap damp feature then it may start damping it even
| when it is UP (because it has already flapped many times and has crossed
a
| threshold). The other side knows that the link A is UP but wont
understand
| why it is not responding to the HELLOs he is sending!
|
| Moreover i feel that the various timers associated with damping a
flapping
| link should be standardized.
|
| As i mentioned before WTR is just not good enough for this purpose.
|
| ~Manav
| ----- Original Message -----
| From: "John Lemon" <JLemon@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
| To: "'Manav Bhatia'" <manav@xxxxxxxxxxx>; <stds-802-17@xxxxxxxx>
| Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 9:38 PM
| Subject: RE: [RPRWG] Wait To Restore
|
|
| | Manav,
| |
| | There is nothing in the standard that requires or prevents this. This
is
| | something a station could easily do, using the existing standard. The
| | standard provides the basic enabling technology which can then be built
| upon
| | by each implementer to provide many different implementations, each
with
| | their own unique values.
| |
| | jl
| |
| | -----Original Message-----
| | From: Manav Bhatia [mailto:manav@xxxxxxxxxxx]
| | Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 7:10 AM
| | To: stds-802-17@xxxxxxxx
| | Subject: [RPRWG] Wait To Restore
| |
| |
| |
| | Hi,
| | Is there any proposal to damp a flapping link if it flaps beyond some
| | threshold value? I am looking for exponential decay wherein if it
remains
| | stable till some time length then it will again be considered fit for
| use.
| | IMHO we must penalize a link more if it flaps severely or more often
than
| a
| | link which flaps lesser number of times and less
| | vigorously. Using the WTR we don't differentiate between the two cases
| | since both of them are advertised if they remain stable for some time
| | period which is specified in the WTR.
| |
| | What do others feel about this?
| |
| | Regards,
| | Manav
| | ----
| | "When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When
you
| | sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's
relativity."
| |
| | -Albert Einstein, on relativity
| |