[21665] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Strange BGP announcement
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin, Christian)
Tue Nov 17 22:20:44 1998
From: "Martin, Christian" <CMartin@mercury.balink.com>
To: "'Tony Li'" <tli@juniper.net>, "'patrick@ianai.net'" <patrick@ianai.net>
Cc: "'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 21:44:34 -0500
>
> Patently false. In particular, the spec allows an
> implementation to invoke
> local policy when computing the local preference of a route. An
> implementation can reasonably incorporate the AS path length
> in its local
> preference calculations as part of its policy.
>
> Tony
>
In Cisco IOS, this falls under the BGP decision process in selecting a
route. So in an indirect way, this is already implemented. To be more
exact in terms of the RFC, I suppose a match clause could be implemented
based on path length, but this can be done already with a regular
expression. Either way, the capability is there.
-Chris