[j-nsp] Policy option for advertising full routes

[Ihsan Junaidi Ibrahim]

On Sun, 23 Oct 2005 15:16:55 +0800, Alan Gravett <alangra at gmail.com> wrote:

> All seems more complicated than necessary - if the customer wants you to
> send him full routes
> then you don't need any export policy, BGP will do this automatically,  
> i.e.
> advertise the active
> route for every destination.
>  The advantage for your customer is if they are multihomed they can  
> achieve
> some measure of
> load sharing based either on shorter AS-PATH if no policies are applied,  
> or
> manipulate the BGP
> attributes to achieve more granular control.
>

I have not defined any export policy yet the customer didn't manage to  
receive any routes from us as shown by his received-routes attribute.

I have defined the following BGP peering configuration
group Customer-1 {
             type external;
             multihop;
             local-address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx; # local lo0
             import from_customer1;
             remove-private;
             peer-as xxxxx;
             neighbor xxx.xxx.xxx;
}

The BGP peering is established and I can import/advertise his networks  
just fine.

-- 
Thank you for your time,
Ihsan Junaidi Ibrahim