Re: Summary of LMP implementation/deployment reports

[Carmine Daloia <daloia@lucent.com>]

Kireeti, Dimitri,

I realize that Section 5 in draft-ietf-ccamp-lmp-05.txt states that the 
Link Connectivity Verification procedure (which is optional) may be used 
to dynamically learn the id associations.  Is this what you mean by LMP 
being able to *build* the mappings?  However this requires that an 
operator *PROVISION* for each and every data link the remote node 
address that the data link is terminated on.  Only with this 
provisioning will the local node know the address to send the 
BeginVerify message to.   So LMP can *build* the mappings (i.e., reduce 
operator provisioning) if the operator has previously provisioned the 
remote node addresses for each and every data link.  Doesn't seem like a 
useful capability.

Carmine


Kireeti Kompella wrote:

> Hi Carmine,
>
> On Tue, 3 Sep 2002, Carmine Daloia wrote:
>
>  
> > So basically LMP is used to verify that the datalink id mappings stored
> > in the neighboring nodes match eachother.
> >    
> Actually, LMP is used to *build* the mappings, not verify them.  If the
> mappings were already stored, LMP could be used to verify them -- but
> that is a secondary function.
>
> Kireeti (as a WG participant).
>
>