[c-nsp] BGP DFZ convergence time - FIB programming

[Mark Tinka]

On 12/Oct/18 02:34, Robert Raszuk wrote:

> While we are a bit diverging from original topic and while indeed under
> very careful application there could be some use cases for outbound bgp
> policies even for ibgp I have never seen one to be applied inbound - which
> was the point of my comment.
>
> So for educational purposes could you describe some real valid use cases to
> apply bgp policies on routes *received* over IBGP ?

On our edge routers, it's for telling it how to handle BGP communities
that define routes whose traffic needs to be scrubbed (DoS mitigation).

On peering routers, RTBH.

But yes, that's about it.

Mark.