BGP filtering [7:30172]

2001-12-27 Thread Hugo M. H. R. Taxa
Recently I was asked to do BGP filtering for a peer thru AS-Macros. I've looked around but can't find any examples of it. I'm at a loss: is BGP filtering thru AS-Macros another fancy name for AS-PATH filtering, or is it something entirely different? If it is different, can anybody point mt to

Re: BGP filtering [7:30172]

2001-12-27 Thread MADMAN
Most likely you are correct. The real question is what are you needing to accomplish, what's the problem Dave Hugo M. H. R. Taxa wrote: Recently I was asked to do BGP filtering for a peer thru AS-Macros. I've looked around but can't find any examples of it. I'm at a loss: is BGP

Re: BGP filtering [7:30172]

2001-12-27 Thread Peter van Oene
AS-Macro's are an object in an RPSL based Internet Routing Registry (IRR) that is used to simplify routing policy registration by grouping AS's. See Ripe-181 (rfc 1786). If you happen to build routing policies using RPSL, I expect you can write policies around AS-Macros, though I've no

Re: BGP filtering [7:30172]

2001-12-27 Thread Darrell Newcomb
Good start, RPSL is actually a step forward from RIPE-181. I think RIPE has the best documentation and surely most widely used RPSL databases. The IRR as the collection of databases isn't quite perfectly mirrored nor is the data nearly up to date. As for the question about the application.