On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Chris Rapier wrote:
I can say the observed divergence corresponds to this previously seen path. E.g.... I run a trace and find it traverses 701 702 8414 2912 7262 101 while the route table indicates its path should be 701 7262 101. If I know that 701 is confederating 8414 and 2912 then I know that the actual path corresponds to the routing table. However, I first need to determine that UUnet if actually doing that.
I think you're confusing confederations with something else entirely. For example, the confederated paths are not visible outside a confederated AS. Eg, some paths will show up like 1 2 3 4 5 6 and 2 may have an internal as path of (65518 655025 655123 23) but for all intents and purposes, the internal structure of 2 is completely opaque to entities not in the same AS. /vijay