On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Leigh Porter wrote:
> > Here here.. Who's idea was that? > perhaps someone doesn't want the other end talking to them? This I've seen used as a security measure at times: "AS1 is really bad, they have a giant route list I can't filter that how about I just don't accept their routes? Oh, I could do that by prepending their AS on my announcements, done!" > Scott Morris wrote: >>> From a technical standpoint, yes. BGP sees a loop whenever it sees its own >> AS in the path. >> >>> From a political/personal standpoint, you need to reach out and smack the >> brainchild that is prepending YOUR AS into their BGP records. It would they might be doing it for a reason they feel is valid (see above) >> serve them right to not be reached. that might be their intent... >> >> Just my thoughts. >> >> Scott >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Reza Sharifi >> Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2008 5:12 PM >> To: juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net >> Subject: [j-nsp] AS-PAth Prepend and Loop Command >> >> Hi All, >> >> If I have an external BGP connection to my neighbor, and if the neighbor is >> Prepending my own AS to the routes that is sending to me, do I need to >> implement the command " set routing-options autonomous-system loop to all of >> my internal routers inside my AS in order to get those routes? >> So far, the only way I have been able to get the routes to all my internal >> routers is by applying the loop command, and do a clear BGP neighbor >> soft-inbound I am running JUNOS 7.3R3.6, Is there any other way of >> implementing this? >> >> Thanks, >> Reza >> _________________________________________________________________ >> Share life as it happens with the new Windows Live. >> http://www.windowslive.com/share.html?ocid=TXT_TAGHM_Wave2_sharelife_012008 >> _______________________________________________ >> juniper-nsp mailing list juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net >> https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp >> >> _______________________________________________ >> juniper-nsp mailing list juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net >> https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp >> > _______________________________________________ > juniper-nsp mailing list juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp > _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing list juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp