[j-nsp] BGP advertise-inactive (even not the *best* BGP route)

[Pedro Roque Marques]

Jeff Wheeler writes:

> When you refer to limitations of existing equipment, below, do you
> mean FIB space limitations?  Certainly that would be an issue for
> folks who wish to provide routes from certain providers to their
> customers.

Yes. 150k x N will exceed your FIB size for some, not to large, value
of N. So you can either reduce the route per fib size or keep N at a
small size.

> The way I see it, though, there is no need to export the routes from
> provider-a.inet.0 to the FIB.  Routes rejected via the
> routing-options forwarding-table export policy may still be
> readvertised to a route optimizer or looking-glass.

Correct.

  Pedro.