[c-nsp] ASR1000 BGP advertise best-external FAIL

[Vitkovský Adam]

> From: Nick Hilliard [mailto:nick at foobar.org]
> Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2014 4:53 PM
> On 08/11/2014 14:29, Vitkovský Adam wrote:
> > Is there any reason why RR running XE can't advertise best external to its
> clients? That is nonsense!
> > Why XR doesn't have any problems with that?
> > From a business point of view I understand it very well as you need to buy
> 4 instead of two routers but otherwise...
> 
> i don't use this feature, but the docs say it's supported on RRs from 3.4S.
> 
> Nick
> 
Well yes it is but actually only for nonclients as one can't advertise best external to a RR client. 
So if there's a PE that happens to be a route reflector as well, then this feature is useless. 
On XR there's no such limitation. 
 

adam