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"John G. Scudder" <[email protected]> writes: > Whether 9999 chooses to do this or not is, as the saying > goes, "purely a local matter." Figures. As with essentially everything in BGP. > Some BGP implementations, gated for one, may be configured to accept > routes with the router's own AS number in the path. Loop suppression > is still provided by limiting the number of times it may appear. > (Hi, Dennis.) Oh yeah, the AS healing wars. I didn't realize gated ever implemented this; I do remember the first time AS path prepending met gated, though, and a certain Russian and a certain Swede plotting to build Sprintlink's backbone on top of ANS's using AS healing. --:) > This is actually useful in some circumstances. Oh certainly. I can think of three applications right now, actually, where that would be the easiest (but probably also the most dangerous) approach to solving routing awkwardnesses. I take it this feature is documented in the usual place? Sean.
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