On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Abhishek Verma wrote:
Legend: {} denotes the sequence, while [] denotes the set
Path {1 2} [3 4] {5}
Would somebody mind if this was represented as {1 2 5} [3 4] ?
Yes, they are different paths. You are allowed to merge adjacent sequences, eg: {1 2} {5} [3 4] the two sequences can be merged, to give: {1 2 5} [3 4] You can *not* merge AS_SET's, as the current BGP specs imply an AS_SET has a fixed path-length, hence you should NOT merge the sets in: {1 2} [3 4] [5 6] into: {1 2} [3 4 5 6] as the former path has a length of 3, the latter a length of just 2 - merging sets could change their meaning. Note though that you're not at all likely to see such paths with BGP speakers implementing the RFC / draft-ietf-idr-bgp-26.txt draft. regards, -- Paul Jakma paul@clubi.ie paul@jakma.org Key ID: 64A2FF6A Fortune: The best way to make a fire with two sticks is to make sure one of them is a match. -- Will Rogers