[21664] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AS_PATH length and route selection (WAS: Strange BGP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Li)
Tue Nov 17 21:07:06 1998
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 17:49:21 -0800 (PST)
From: Tony Li <tli@juniper.net>
To: patrick@ianai.net
CC: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: <199811180147.UAA06087@cliff.concentric.net> (message from I Am
Not An Isp on Tue, 17 Nov 1998 17:46:50 -0800)
| This, of course, leads to many, many other questions (such as the
| possibility routing loops caused by different local policies as was seen
| with implementations of BGP4), but few of which are of a truly operational
| issue. So I will apologize for starting a thread based on mis-information
| and go back to my cave.
Different local policies should all be reflected in the LOCAL_PREF, which
should be distributed to all nodes within the domain. This should lead to
consistent decisions within the domain and thus should avoid stable
forwarding loops.
Tony
