On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 8:51 AM, Paul Jakma <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 23 Nov 2015, Daniel Walton wrote: > > If it were an attribute though that would be bad for update packing >> because the timestamp would end up being unique for most prefixes. >> > > Well, if using it like a Lamport clock you wouldn't treat it as prefix > specific, but peer-global. (Hence why preprending it some way would be > notionally cleaner, but that might be harder to do for BGP-mess reasons). > > BMP has timestamps though...we just need someone to implement it in quagga >> :) >> > > Is it a useful debug aid though? Does it have any other uses?
I haven't done tons with it but the idea is you can have each node dump everything to a collector and then you have a nice record of exactly how a prefix changed throughout your AS. So the debugging ability that it gets you depends a lot on the collector you are using. Daniel
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