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. I

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 experi

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