Re: AS path weirdness

[Christian Koch <christian () broknrobot com>]

a private asn in (parentheses) indicates a bgp confederation, i would
tend to think that there is some sort of mis-config or software bug in
one of the routers in that path thats leaking it

On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 7:51 AM, Jason Lewis <jlewis () packetnexus com> wrote:
> I was under the impression that MRT only used brackets for sets.  eg.
> [ASNUM]
>
> Thanks for taking a look.
>
> jas
>
> James Aldridge wrote:
> > Jason Lewis wrote:
> > > I'm not entirely sure what I'm looking at. The reserved AS, 65490
> > > appears in parentheses and I've never seen that in MRT formatted data
> > > and not sure why it's happening.
> >
> > That would be a single-element AS_SET, I guess.