> On Dec 13, 2018, at 2:12 PM, Jakob Heitz (jheitz) <jhe...@cisco.com> wrote:
>
> Wait, a BMP server is not a BGP peer. It does not replicate a routing table.
> It is a logger/processor of information. It doesn't "delete" older
> information,
> just because some newer information arrived.
> Its purpose it to tell you what happened at some time in the past,
> because you are trying to debug a problem or do some capacity planning
> or whatever. Just because a BGP router changed its BGP-ID does not mean
> that all the routes it had 2 days ago magically did not happen.
Actually there are consumers who treat it like this. This is why on up we
get a dump of what the router might have in adj-rib-in, then get deltas.
It is the expectation of a consumer they will get this data similar to being a
BGP peer.
- Jared
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