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IS-IS Mesh Groups
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Network Working Group R. Balay
Request for Comments: 2973 CoSine Communications
Category: Informational D. Katz
Juniper Networks
J. Parker
Axiowave Networks
October 2000
IS-IS Mesh Groups
Status of this Memo
This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does
not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this
memo is unlimited.
Copyright Notice
Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2000). All Rights Reserved.
Abstract
This document describes a mechanism to reduce redundant packet
transmissions for the Intermediate System to Intermediate System
(IS-IS) Routing protocol, as described in ISO 10589. The described
mechanism can be used to reduce the flooding of Link State PDUs
(Protocol Data Units) (LSPs) in IS-IS topologies. The net effect is
to engineer a flooding topology for LSPs which is a subset of the
physical topology. This document serves to document the existing
behavior in deployed implementations.
The document describes behaviors that are backwards compatible with
implementations that do not support this feature.
Table of Contents
1. Overview..................................................... 2
2. Definitions of Mesh Groups................................... 3
3. Drawbacks of Mesh Groups..................................... 5
4. Interoperation with Mesh Groups.............................. 6
5. Acknowledgments.............................................. 6
6. References................................................... 6
7. Security Considerations...................................... 6
8. Authors' Addresses........................................... 7
9. Full Copyright Statement..................................... 8
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