[j-nsp] BGP origination

[Hannes Gredler]

On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 11:22:29AM -0500, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
| 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.

you still have the ability to add your community,
as-path stuff in the "then" portion of the policy;

so whats missing ?

/hannes