[140577] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re. EGP Remembered
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Walter Prue)
Fri May 13 18:33:55 2011
From: Walter Prue <prue@usc.edu>
To: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net>,Dorn Hetzel <dorn@hetzel.org>
Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 15:33:09 -0700
Cc: nanog@nanog.org, prue@usc.edu
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
>Does no one remember EGP?
To add to what Jessica already said about EGP, I can add that there were basically 3 metric values:
0 - directly connected
1-254 - not directly connected
255 unavailable
So there was no concept of hop counts or quality of the route other than directly connected. I don't recall why the metric
of 255 would ever be used as apposed to just not advertising a route.
Walt
