Re: Withdrawls and announcements attempt 2

["Steven J. Richardson" <sjr () merit edu>]

Yeah, that's essentially what cisco said, though I'd
guess that you ought to be able to at least not
propagate the withdraw back to the peer who sent it
to you...

But that's just my opinion.

Steve R./Merit
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  >From: Sean Doran <smd () icp net>
  >To: justin () erols com, nanog () merit edu
  >Subject: Re: Withdrawls and announcements attempt 2
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  >Date:        Fri, 21 Jun 1996 11:20:18 +0100
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  >Keeping track of the state of who got announced what is likely
  >to be a very very very bad idea for busy BGP talkers carrying
  >today's amount of NLRI and instability.
  >
  >There are some hacks around the simplistic "if it's in my RIB,
  >I have to propagate withdrawals to all my neighbours" for some
  >cases, but a more comprehensive fix would require some Thinking.
  >
  >This should probably get migrated over to the BGP list.
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  >     Sean.
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