Re: Open Source BGP Route Optimization?

[Arnold Nipper <arnold () nipper de>]

On 28.05.2004 15:37 Per Gregers Bilse wrote:

> On May 28, 10:37am, "Sam Stickland" <sam_ml () spacething org> wrote:
> > in this direction. IIRC the problem isn't to do with the route annoucements,
> > it's the route withdrawals. I believe BGP only specifies the prefix being
> > withdrawn and not the path, so if it's advertised multiple paths to a prefix
> > it's impossible to know which has been withdrawn.
>
>
> That is 100% correct, yes.  Selective withdrawal is not supported.

Wouldn't Equal Cost Multi-Path (ECMP) solve this?



Arnold