To educate us on what BGP-LS is and why it exists, the Packet Pushers' Heavy Networking podcast welcome Hannes Gredler. He’s heavily involved in the deepest corners of the networking industry as the CTO and founder of startup RtBrick, offering cloud-native routing software for telcos. He’s also chaired the IETF IS-IS working group, and was a Distinguished Engineer at Juniper Networks. He holds some routing patents. He’s a published author.Hannes knows what’s going on when it comes to BGP-LS, and volunteered to share some of his time with Heavy Networking.
We discuss:
- What BGP-LS is and the problems it solves
- How BGP-LS was conceived
- Why carry link state in BGP?
- Are we stuffing too many features into BGP?
- How BGP-LS compares to segment routing
- More
This is the video version of Heavy Networking 553: Why Does BGP Need Link State? You can listen to the audio episode here: https://packetpushers.net/podcast/heavy-networking-553-why-does-bgp-need-link-state/
Heavy Networking is part of the Packet Pushers network of technical podcasts, including Day Two Cloud, IPv6 Buzz, Full Stack Journey, and Network Break. Find them all at https://packetpushers.net
