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Re: Order of ASes in the BGP Path
From: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve () telecomplete co uk>
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 11:02:18 +0100 (BST)
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 meonthis. I now understand that people do look at the AS_PATH and the orderofASes is important for debugging, etc.and thank you for reading the rfcRandy, 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
Current thread:
- Order of ASes in the BGP Path Abhishek Verma (Aug 29)
- Re: Order of ASes in the BGP Path Richard A Steenbergen (Aug 29)
- Re: Order of ASes in the BGP Path Abhishek Verma (Aug 29)
- Re: Order of ASes in the BGP Path Randy Bush (Aug 29)
- Re: Order of ASes in the BGP Path Abhishek Verma (Aug 29)
- Re: Order of ASes in the BGP Path Stephen J. Wilcox (Aug 30)
- Re: Order of ASes in the BGP Path Jake Khuon (Aug 30)
- Bellsouth.net Outage? Alan Spicer (Aug 30)
- Re: Bellsouth.net Outage? Jon Lewis (Aug 30)
- Re: Order of ASes in the BGP Path Abhishek Verma (Aug 29)
- Re: Order of ASes in the BGP Path Richard A Steenbergen (Aug 29)
- Re: Order of ASes in the BGP Path Randy Bush (Aug 29)
- Re: Order of ASes in the BGP Path Tom Sanders (Aug 29)
- Re: Order of ASes in the BGP Path Paul Jakma (Aug 29)
- Re: Order of ASes in the BGP Path Abhishek Verma (Aug 30)