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[Alan Crosswell <>]

Rate-limiting MSDP means you may lose useful, low update frequency,l  
SAs that are buried in the noise.

ASM must die.
/a

On Oct 24, 2008, at 6:17 AM, "Tony Ballardie" < 
> wrote:

> > From: Dan Pritts 
> > [mailto:]
> > Sent: 23 October 2008 21:34
> >
> > > After all, 1) ASM works,
> >
> > Arguably, ASM does not work.
> >
> > I've certainly had problems on my network due to MSDP storms
> > and the SAP storm we saw recently.
>
> ASM works provided it's configured properly (like anything else) and  
> you
> rate-limit msdp. Unless you're talking about bugs which do break its
> correct operation, it's misleading to suggest it doesn't work. That's
> NOT to say we shouldn't be moving towards SSM - we definitely SHOULD.
>
> > IMO, Going forward we'll be faced with a choice between SSM and  
> > giving
> > up on
> > interdomain multicast.
>
> It's not time to give up on it.... quite the opposite :-)
>
> Tony