RE: honoring AS-path prepend from a peer or customer?

["Martin, Christian" <CMartin () mercury balink com>]

> Criscos,
> Bays, and gated boxes can't do this (without BGP->IGP->BGP 
> redistribution).
>
> Avi


Agreed.  There is no provision to do this directly with BGP, although
the RFC does not specifically preclude this, as far as I can tell.  It
does mention truncating AS-PATH information when dealing with Inter-AS
multicast routes, but this is a future provision.

Chris