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Re: HE.net BGP origin attribute rewriting


From: sthaug () nethelp no
Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 14:03:00 +0200 (CEST)

I disagree.  Origin is tremendously useful as a multi-AS weighting
tool, and isn't the blunt hammer that AS_PATH is.

If you think of AS_PATH as a blunt hammer, how would you describe
localpref?

We use AS_PATH in many cases *precisely* because we don't consider it
to be a blunt hammer...

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug () nethelp no


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