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On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Abhishek Verma wrote: > Since i smell some traces of sarcasm here. > > On 8/30/05, Randy Bush <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I thank everyone who took time off their busy schedules and answered me > > on > > > this. I now understand that people do look at the AS_PATH and the order > > of > > > ASes is important for debugging, etc. > > > > and thank you for reading the rfc > > Randy, > I respect your knowledge and wisdom and that of other people on this list > here which is why i asked this question. Yes, i have gone through the RFC 1771 > throughly and trust me it does not mention any other use of this Path > attribute, except for the path length/loop detection. People on this list have > a *lot* of experience and its these people who actually use this protocol. > To me these were the best people to tell me if they indeed use it for other > purposes also. from time to time people say 'but the rfc says...'. but theres a big place for precedent and common practice too. Steve
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