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Re: Why doesn't BGP...

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Lothberg)
Mon Nov 11 06:13:38 1996

Date: Mon, 11 Nov 96 12:06:50 MET
From: Peter Lothberg <roll@Stupi.SE>
To: Ed Morin <edm@halcyon.com>
Cc: "Neil J. McRae" <neil@easynet.net>, Deepak Jain <deepak@jain.com>,
        nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of Sat, 9 Nov 1996 09:33:54 -0800 (PST)

> Look, I can do a "show interface" on any interface and see what speed
> it's running at and if it's dropping packets.  If BGP hears a route
> on an interface that isn't dropping packets shouldn't _that_ route
> be considered "best" all other things being equal (hop counts and
> all)?  You can't tell me the router doesn't know this information
> because _I_ get the information from the router itself!!

And the next hop router? ? And the dampening? 

> Ed Morin
> Northwest Nexus Inc. (206) 455-3505 (voice)
> Professional Internet Services
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^


--Peter
  Using the internet for a hobby


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