On 05/23/2013 11:36 PM, Ondrej Zajicek wrote: > On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 07:35:29PM +0200, Matthias Schiffer wrote: >> I think all routes should be handled the same way, without regard for >> the source protocol. > > Well, this is nice idea, but BGP standard (RFC 4271) specifies for route > propagation different behavior based on whether the route was received > originally from iBGP or from eBGP. So even if you want that non-BGP > routes should be handled like BGP ones, you would have to specify > whether like iBGP or like eBGP. > Hmm, this is true, but the distinction becomes hard to define as soon as you have BGP instances with different local AS# and propagate routes between then... maybe it would be beneficial to add an (filter readable/writable) attribute holding the remote AS# the route was received from and use this to differentiate between iBGP and eBGP?
Matthias
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