[j-nsp] Stripping off BGP Prepends

[Phill Jolliffe]

How about bloking their bgp route and instead redist'ing an aggregate
with a configured AS-Path. Not exactly the same but similar in the end

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 8:17 AM, Richard A Steenbergen <ras at e-gerbil.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 10:19:06PM -0400, Paul Stewart wrote:
>> Hi there..
>>
>> Some of you might get a chuckle out of this...  Have a customer who
>> called and wants us to strip off their prepends they are padding in
>> their BGP session with us.  They are padding their AS number 6 times
>> and now the traffic levels are getting too large with their other
>> upstream provider.
>>
>> Obviously I asked - umm... why don't *you* change it?  Their answer
>> was that a consultant set this up for them and he's on holidays this
>> week.... yikes...
>>
>> Anyways, JunOS on MX series - Do this in an import policy?  I'm
>> looking for something that says "AS numbers in path only allowed once"
>> for simplicity sake I think....
>
> There is absolutely no way to implement anything like this in JUNOS, not
> even with hidden commands, despite about 10 years of asking for a secret
> way to manipulate the as-path.
>
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