[6049] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Why doesn't BGP...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Neil J. McRae)
Sat Nov 9 09:57:42 1996
To: Ed Morin <edm@halcyon.com>
cc: Deepak Jain <deepak@jain.com>, nanog@merit.edu, neil@easynet.net
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 08 Nov 1996 19:20:40 PST."
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From: "Neil J. McRae" <neil@easynet.net>
Reply-To: "Neil J. McRae" <neil@easynet.net>
Date: Sat, 09 Nov 1996 14:45:58 +0000
On Fri, 8 Nov 1996 19:20:40 -0800 (PST)
Ed Morin <edm@halcyon.com> alleged:
> Well, sure, but why should I _have_ to? I thought we, in part, pay
> the big bucks for routers that are supposed to figure some of this
> stuff out on their own without having to "band-aid" things with AS
> path manipulations, etc.
Try reading the manual. How is the router supposed to know what
you want to do. BGP4 knows nothing of link speeds, and I hope
it never does, the instabilities it could cause are frightening.
I don't think the people who came up with BGP4 ever expected to
see what some people do with their router configs.
Regards,
Neil.
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