[8382] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BGP4 COMMUNITY attribute
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alexandre Leib Grojsgold)
Thu Mar 27 14:49:29 1997
From: algold@lambda.lncc.br (Alexandre Leib Grojsgold)
To: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 16:26:22 -0300 (GRNLNDST)
In-Reply-To: <333AC473.7D55368C@BayNetworks.com> from "Paul Knight" at Mar 27, 97 02:03:15 pm
Regardless of the COMMUNITY attribute being pushed further or not, one
must keep in mind that an AS will only advertise to other AS's the route it
has selected itself as "best route".
It means that one's ability to influence routing decisions of ASes "far
away" is minimal, not to say =zero.
Alexandre.
