Re: Why MSDP?

[Ali Boudani <aboudani@irisa.fr>]

Hello,

> One reason: the timescales for change of active source indications are
> much different than BGP was designed to carry.  BGP wants to carry
> data that doesn't change very often, e.g. see route dampening.  Sources
> can come and go at an arbitrary rate, so the rate of change of the
> information is potentially much higher.

I think that the main problem is that we are using multiple RPs instead of
one RP (RP for each domain) and that is why we are needing the MSDP. Isnt
true ??
PS : we are using multiple RPs to avoid administrative dependencies between
domains.

Ali