[j-nsp] Aggregate and directly connected routes (route preference)

[Robin Balen]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gary Tate [mailto:gtate at juniper.net] 
> Sent: 27 January 2004 04:20

Gary, Pedro,

> > advertise-inactive only advertises inactive BGP routes. So it won't
> > advertise an aggregate if it is inactive.

Ah. A fatal flaw in our nice plan ;)

> Indeed, sorry Robin for any confusion.  However,  you can 
> still achieve what you want as stated bellow:

Yeah, we'll just specify the exact prefixes that should be allowed through
the route-filter so those routes can be fulfilled either by the interface
routes, or if they're not present, the aggregate routes.

> Again, as Gary mentioned, the potential drawback is that you may be
> attracting traffic that is going to be droped while there may be an
> alternate route in the network, when advertising a discard route.

Thanks for pointing this out - however in this particular situation this is
what we actually require.

Many thanks for all your help.

Robin Balen