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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Strange BGP announcement
At 07:47 PM 11/17/98 +0000, Andrew Bangs wrote: >[email protected] wrote: >I don't recall saying that, or anything about route selection. >I don't want all backbone routers (or any of them, for that matter) >ignoring Update messages (or worse, propagating the announcements) with >malformed AS_PATH attributes when they should be returning a NOTIFY and >closing the BGP session. You said you wanted routers that followed the RFC. The RFC does not mention list AS_PATH length as a route selection criteria. I have been told that the draft for the next rev specifically prohibits using AS_PATH length as a route selection criteria. I kinda like using AS_PATH length. It's not perfect - and I'm definitely open to suggestions - but for now it's working. And changing that in today's environment would be ... monumental to say the least. OTOH, I completely agree that the routers should have *not* passed on malformed announcements, and behaving improperly to certain errors. >Andrew Bangs, Network Engineering Manager, Demon Internet Ltd TTFN, patrick I Am Not An Isp www.ianai.net "Think of it as evolution in action." - Niven & Pournelle
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