[8156] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: consistent policy != consistent announcements
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vince Fuller)
Thu Mar 13 14:57:11 1997
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 97 11:31:33 PST
From: Vince Fuller <vaf@valinor.barrnet.net>
To: John Scudder <jgs@ieng.com>
Cc: Sean Donelan <SEAN@sdg.dra.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 13 Mar 1997 10:46:06 -0500 (EST)
By the way, this general fact about BGP (external announcements are
governed by internal route selection) also means that for Randy to
always announce the same route to his peer, he would have to change his
own, internal routing policy to do cold-potato routing to one of the
two candidate paths. This doesn't seem like a reasonable thing for a
peer to demand he do.
Well, if that "candidate path" is, in fact, one of Randy's customer, then
I would expect him to "cold-potato" route toward it. One would think that
to be part of the service that his customer is purchasing. I certainly
shouldn't have to do "cold-potato" routing to his customer, as that customer
isn't purchasing anything from me.
--Vince
