BGP or OSPF? Does Topology Visibility Matter?
One of the comments added to my Using BGP in Data Centers blog post said:
With symmetric fabric… does it make sense for a node to know every bit of fabric info or is reachability information sufficient?
Let’s ignore for the moment that large non-redundant layer-3 fabrics where BGP-in-Data-Center movement started don’t need more than endpoint reachability information, and focus on a bigger issue: is knowledge of network topology (as provided by OSPF and not by BGP) beneficial?
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