Re: Strange BGP announcement

[I Am Not An Isp <patrick () ianai net>]

At 01:00 AM 11/14/98 +0000, Andrew Bangs wrote:

> > > thank you for this nice code, which caused our gated to crash...
> > > Where may i send my bill to :-)))
> >
> > I suggest the bill be sent to the guy/vendor that injected the 
> > bad path :-)
>
> Hmm. If the upstream had been running code that did what the RFC says
> then Winfried wouldn't have a bill to send to anybody...
> It isn't like this was the first time we've seen this problem, either.

You really want all backbone routers to ignore AS-Path length in the BGP
route selection process?  I think I like it better the way it is now - at
least for the near future.

Hrmm....  Perhaps if the vendors covered the RFC error code type stuff at
least, then they could add kewl, new features like "as-path length" as a
step in the route selection process.

> Andrew

TTFN,
patrick

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