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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