I agree with Paul's reasoning here, but I also agree with Daniel's point of
getting an actual Capability #.  We recently went through the same thing
with the bgp hostname patch.

donald

On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 11:18 AM, Paul Jakma <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, 11 Dec 2015, Daniel Walton wrote:
>
> They didn't have any issues though.
>>
>
> Sure, but as per the previous thread on this, mismatches on that could
> indeed cause instability.
>
> I guess I still don't have my head wrapped around the exact problem that
>> is solved by exchanging the bestpath rules used?
>>
>
> Making BGP safer to use, and making it harder for operators to
> accidentally get their network into an "unsafe" state that might be prone
> to weird instability problems (potentially hard to debug).
>
> If it is desirable to have a different selection order (and it seemed
> Cumulus thought so? And I agree it'd be good to have cluster-list earlier),
> then we can make bgpd make life easier for operators by making it harder to
> deploy it in a likely broken config.
>
> Why make life harder for operators, when a little bit of code in bgpd can
> make their life easier? :)
>
> That was the use-case basically.
>
> regards,
> --
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