[j-nsp] as-path-prepend-nerf

[John Payne]

--On Friday, March 19, 2004 2:51 AM -0500 Jeff Wheeler <jeff at reflected.net> 
wrote:

>                       AS path: 4436 8001 27257 27257 27257 27257 I
>
> I'd like to set as-path-prepend-nerf 1 and allow unique ASNs to appear
> only once consecutively in a learnt path.  The action performed would be
> to convert the above path to "4436 8001 27257 I."  Is this crazy?  I do
> not see how this action could introduce loops.

Wouldn't that defeat the object of the person prepending?

I'm assuming that if you're doing BGP you're multihomed, so what if you see 
a "natural" 3 or 4 hop path via your other connection?