[j-nsp] BGP origination

[Richard A Steenbergen]

On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 02:50:37PM +0100, Hannes Gredler wrote:
> 
> why relying on a static route if we have a direct route ?
> 
> policy-options {
>     policy-statement adv-customer-xyz {
>        from {
>            protocol direct;
>            route-filter 192.168.1.0/24;
>        }
>        then accept;
>    }
> }
> protocols {
>     bgp {
>         group to-my-upstream {
>             export adv-customer-xyz;
>         }
>     }
> }
> 
> should do the trick ...

Because then I lose the ability to easily tag that /24 with communities, 
as-path, etc, as I would when defining a static holddown route. At best, I 
end up with a REALLY ugly policy-statement to do it.

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