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- Editor's note: These minutes have not been edited.
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- The OSPF Working Group met on Wednesday, December 11th from 1300-2500 at
- the San Jose IETF. Minutes of the meeting follow:
-
- (1) We discussed the issues remaining before the OSPFv2 spec (<draft-
- ietf-ospf-version2-08.txt>) can be submitted for publication as a
- Full Standard, replacing RFC 1583. John Moy summarized the required
- standardization report (<draft-ietf-ospf-stdreport-00.txt>). One
- incompatible change had been made, resulting in the new
- RFC1583Compatibility flag, which has to be set manually router-by-
- router through SNMP. Two new problems were then described, both of
- which require modifications to the reception of Database Description
- packets in OSPF. Both modifications are backward-compatible.
-
- The first problem, reported by Man-Kit Yeung of cisco, concerns
- retransmissions of the initial Database Description packets (those
- with the Init bit set). These can be continual due to, for example,
- high delay links, in which case the two neighbors will never start
- exchanging databases. The solution is to process these
- retransmissions just as you process duplicate Database Description
- packets in other states.
-
- The second problem, reported by Dan Senie of Proteon, concerns MTU
- mismatches between OSPF neighbors. This can cause flooding between
- the two neighbors to fail, with large Link State Updates being
- continually retransmitted. To fix this, we will report interface MTU
- in Database Description packets. A router will discard received
- Database Description packet which advertise an MTU that is larger
- than the router can receive. In this way, adjacencies will not form
- between routers having MTU mismatches. Tony Li expressed a desire
- for a more general purpose mechanism. There was also a question
- whether the same thing will have to be done for OSPF for IPv6 (we
- think so).
-
- (2) The current OSPF for IPv6 draft (<draft-ietf-ospf-ospfv6-03.txt>)
- was modified to prevent IPv6 link-local addresses from appearing in
- all LSAs except the Link-LSA, where they are used in the next hop
- calculation. The draft will not be submitted to the IETF standards
- track until implementation experience is gained.
-
- (3) Rob Coltun's Opaque-LSA draft (<draft-ietf-ospf-opaque-00.txt>) was
- reviewed. We intend to submit this for Proposed Standard, as a
- general way to add future extensions to OSPFv2. Jeffrey Zhang asked
- about adding a no-flooding option to the Opaque-LSA flooding scope.
- John Moy responded that standardization of no-flooding was
- unnecessary, as this could be handled equally well via private
- agreements. The Opaque-LSA also has a range of reserved types, which
- we expect will be assigned by IANA.
-
- (4) Doug Williams presented IBM's "QoS Routing Mechanisms and OSPF
- Extensions" (<draft-guerin-qos-routing-ospf-00.txt>). This proposal
- advertises each link's available bandwidth, and optimizes based on
- hop count. Roch Guerin said hop count was used instead of the OSPF
- metric because it is too hard to meaningfully combine additive
- metrics. A good deal of the draft discusses how to efficiently
- precalculate paths with sufficient available bandwidth. A Bellman-
- Ford method and a method using Dijkstra's algorithm are both given;
- the Bellman-Ford is preferred because it doesn't require bandwidth
- quantization (which loses information). Several people mentioned
- that available bandwidth could be advertised in a backward-
- compatible fashion be using OSPF's TOS-encodings.
-
- (5) Patrick Murphy of the U.S. Geological Survey is working on an update
- to OSPF NSSA areas (RFC1587). Import of inter-area routes into NSSA
- areas is being made optional in some cases, and the preference rules
- for the external route calculation are being updated to match the
- latest OSPFv2 spec. Dennis Ferguson wondered whether the resulting
- preferences were metastable. Upon further examination, we think that
- they are OK, but this should be checked by the NSSA authors. Pat
- also described the network where he wants to use NSSA areas: an
- inter-agency network with many OSPF areas, and a lot of
- redistribution of data between OSPF and other routing protocols such
- as IGRP, RIP and IS-IS.
-
- (6) Mark Pullen and Lava Lavu presented an ongoing effort at George
- Mason University to simulate QOSPF. The simulation uses OpNet. They
- have simulated IGMP, RSVP, OSPF, and MOSPF, and are making their
- simulation code publicly available. They only have preliminary
- results, but future results will be available on
- http://bacon.gmu.edu/qosip. They are also looking for people to help
- validate their results.
-