On Mon, 16 Feb 2009, John van Oppen wrote:
I am also a bit leery of setting it much lower than the defaults due to the possibility of filtering something my customers will care about... I am not sure what the best strategy is but what really bit a couple of our customers was their old IOSes that tore the sessions down. I note that most of our customers speaking BGP had no issue just three out of about 25.
What do people think is a reasonable maximum as-path length to enforce at ones edge?
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