Re: Traffic Engineering (fwd)

[John W Stewart III <jstewart () juniper net>]

> This isn't quite correct (though it's peripheral to your main
> argument).  An EBGP speaker is free to advertise routes containing
> 9999 to 9999.  Furthermore, 9999 is free to accept routes containing
> 9999.  Whether 9999 chooses to do this or not is, as the saying
> goes, "purely a local matter."  Likewise whether 9999's peers choose
> to refrain from sending such routes.
>
> Some BGP implementations, gated for one, may be configured to accept
> routes with the router's own AS number in the path.  Loop suppression
> is still provided by limiting the number of times it may appear.
> (Hi, Dennis.)
>
> This is actually useful in some circumstances.

serious question:  what circumstances?

/jws