Look, I can do a "show interface" on any interface and see what speed it's running at and if it's dropping packets. If BGP hears a route on an interface that isn't dropping packets shouldn't _that_ route be considered "best" all other things being equal (hop counts and all)? You can't tell me the router doesn't know this information because _I_ get the information from the router itself!! I understand about route instabilities, etc. All I'm talking about here is a better "tie breaker" than ordinate numbers of IP addresses. On Sat, 9 Nov 1996, Neil J. McRae wrote:
On Fri, 8 Nov 1996 19:20:40 -0800 (PST) Ed Morin <edm@halcyon.com> alleged:
Well, sure, but why should I _have_ to? I thought we, in part, pay the big bucks for routers that are supposed to figure some of this stuff out on their own without having to "band-aid" things with AS path manipulations, etc.
Try reading the manual. How is the router supposed to know what you want to do. BGP4 knows nothing of link speeds, and I hope it never does, the instabilities it could cause are frightening.
I don't think the people who came up with BGP4 ever expected to see what some people do with their router configs.
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