[j-nsp] BGP origination

[Hannes Gredler]

On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 11:56:20AM -0500, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
| On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 02:46:22PM +0100, Hannes Gredler wrote:
| > On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 02:17:15AM -0500, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
| > | I have a question about which technique people use to originate BGP 
| > | routes.
| > 
| > [ ... ]
| > 
| > richard,
| > 
| > you may explore the possibilities that the "generate" route type does
| > give you; [located unter routing-options]
| 
| So, on that subject, would you (or someone) care to explain the difference 
| between "generate" and just setting a route on 0.0.0.0/0? I'm afraid I 
| don't see the purpose of it.

"generate" creates a local route which inherits elements from the
contributing routes [AS_PATH, ORIGIN, metric etc.]

a route pointing to 0/0 just inherits the next-hop ...

/hannes