[j-nsp] RE: bgp config changes (was: autonomous-system N loops L)

[Daniel Roesen]

On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 01:37:17PM -0800, Joe Soricelli wrote:
> An ER has been opened for this.

Nice! Hopefully one item on my feature-request list less soon. :-)

> It would allow a prefix-list to be applied within a policy as
> 'from prefix-list foo orlonger'.

Ideally, it should allow all the "exact", "orlonger", "longer" etc.
qualifiers.

> This would allow a single prefix-list to be used in a firewall
> and a policy and have them both represent the "complete" subnets.

Especially, it allows to use the same IRR-generated prefix list
to filter accepted prefixes from BGP customers (match exact), and use
the same prefix-list to accept more-specifics (match longer) for
remote-triggered blackholing or traffic engineering purposes and
treat them differently to the normal IRR-accepted prefixes.

Would be another step ahead IOS. :-)


Regards,
Daniek