Re: [nsp] BGP routing questions

From: Dorian Kim (dorian@blackrose.org)
Date: Fri Oct 01 1999 - 12:01:31 EDT


On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 11:52:58AM -0400, Stephen Stuart wrote:
> > Not everybody uses IOS for BGP routeing...
>
> All BGP implementations should follow the same basic route selection
> algorithm, as specified in the RFC 1771. The gated description of BGP
> route selection at:
>
> http://www.gated.org/gated-web/code/doc/manuals/config_guide/pref.html#RouteSelection
>
> could also have been used to illustrate the point that "lowest AS
> number" is not part of the BGP route selection process.

Of course various "interpretations" of RFC 1771 exists in the real world..

-dorian



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