I can't think of any customers that have asked to be able to change the decision process in BGP so my initial reaction is that it would not get used very much. Maybe a better question is what are the use cases where one needs to be able to change the decision algorithm?
Daniel On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 4:31 AM, Paul Jakma <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 10 Dec 2015, Daniel Walton wrote: > > Paul have you floated this by idr? I think it would be good to put >> together a draft and throw it out there for feedback before committing >> anything. >> > > Well, I guess that depends on whether people think it's useful. > > I certainly think it'd be useful to be able to change the decision > process, including the default. Having BGP speakers be able to help > minimise the risks to operators and help deployment (clearly defined > behaviour on mismatch, rather than unknown weird behaviour) seems like it > could be useful. > > Question is, whether others agree. I thought it'd be good to get opinion > on that here first, by posting a patch, before seeing about a draft. :) > > Also, on practicalities, if we wanted to apply that patch it'd be good to > have an assigned capability code. Otherwise, it'd need another tweak to add > some magic to the cap to differentiate our private-vendor cap for that code > from any others. ;) > > regards, > -- > Paul Jakma, HPE Networking, Advanced Technology Group > Fortune: > If I'm over the hill, why is it I don't recall ever being on top? > -- Jerry Muscha >
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