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IS-IS Flooding Reduction in MSDC
draft-xu-lsr-isis-flooding-reduction-in-msdc-03

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This is an older version of an Internet-Draft whose latest revision state is "Active".
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Authors Xiaohu Xu , Luyuan Fang , Jeff Tantsura , Shaowen Ma
Last updated 2021-06-25 (Latest revision 2020-12-22)
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Abstract

IS-IS is commonly used as an underlay routing protocol for MSDC (Massively Scalable Data Center) networks. For a given IS-IS router within the CLOS topology, it would receive multiple copies of exactly the same LSP from multiple IS-IS neighbors. In addition, two IS-IS neighbors may send each other the same LSP simultaneously. The unnecessary link-state information flooding wastes the precious process resource of IS-IS routers greatly due to the fact that there are too many IS-IS neighbors for each IS-IS router within the CLOS topology. This document proposes some extensions to IS-IS so as to reduce the IS-IS flooding within MSDC networks greatly. The reduction of the IS-IS flooding is much beneficial to improve the scalability of MSDC networks.

Authors

Xiaohu Xu
Luyuan Fang
Jeff Tantsura
Shaowen Ma

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