7 Oct
1998
7 Oct
'98
11:25 a.m.
second, if they (AS5662) were connected to MCI/CW rather than Sprint, they would be unreachable with this announcement, other than the fact that ANS would be announcing the aggregate, and following that path, rather than having the actual as-path be traversed. Uhm but an AS-path is a trail of bread-crumbs to prevent an announcement loop, not a proper predictor of the forwarding-path towards the origin.
but, as jared was talking about filtering of routes, forwarding path is quite irrelevant. randy