[83875] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Order of ASes in the BGP Path
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen J. Wilcox)
Tue Aug 30 06:04:12 2005
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 11:02:18 +0100 (BST)
From: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@telecomplete.co.uk>
To: Abhishek Verma <abhishekv.verma@gmail.com>
Cc: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>, <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <ce8d903305082918056da22d76@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Abhishek Verma wrote:
> Since i smell some traces of sarcasm here.
>
> On 8/30/05, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I thank everyone who took time off their busy schedules and answered me
> > on
> > > this. I now understand that people do look at the AS_PATH and the order
> > of
> > > ASes is important for debugging, etc.
> >
> > and thank you for reading the rfc
>
> Randy,
> I respect your knowledge and wisdom and that of other people on this list
> here which is why i asked this question. Yes, i have gone through the RFC 1771
> throughly and trust me it does not mention any other use of this Path
> attribute, except for the path length/loop detection. People on this list have
> a *lot* of experience and its these people who actually use this protocol.
> To me these were the best people to tell me if they indeed use it for other
> purposes also.
from time to time people say 'but the rfc says...'. but theres a big place for
precedent and common practice too.
Steve
