[23086] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: honoring AS-path prepend from a peer or customer?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin, Christian)
Thu Feb 18 22:31:44 1999
From: "Martin, Christian" <CMartin@mercury.balink.com>
To: "'Avi Freedman'" <freedman@avi.netaxs.com>,
"'nanog@merit.edu'"
<nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 22:02:17 -0500
> Criscos,
> Bays, and gated boxes can't do this (without BGP->IGP->BGP
> redistribution).
>
> Avi
Agreed. There is no provision to do this directly with BGP, although
the RFC does not specifically preclude this, as far as I can tell. It
does mention truncating AS-PATH information when dealing with Inter-AS
multicast routes, but this is a future provision.
Chris
