OSPF graceful restart for unplanned outage?

[Ondrej Zajicek]

On Fri, Nov 08, 2019 at 03:51:03PM +0000, Kenth Eriksson wrote:
> On Fri, 2019-11-08 at 16:10 +0100, Ondrej Zajicek wrote:
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> > On Fri, Nov 08, 2019 at 01:08:31PM +0000, Kenth Eriksson wrote:
> > > Hi!
> > > 
> > > Does bird support OSPF graceful restart for unplanned outage? The doc
> > > only speaks about planned outage. Section 5 in RFC 3623 describes that
> > > OSPF GR mechanism may be used for unplanned outage.
> > 
> > No
> > 
> Any plans to support it? Believe you support it for BGP.

Not currently. BGP and OSPF graceful restart standards are designed
differently. BGP GR is designed as unplanned, there is a new RFC that
adds planned / announced option (but not planned-only variant). OSPF GR
is designed as planned, with some tricks that allow unplanned usage.

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