At 01:00 AM 11/14/98 +0000, Andrew Bangs wrote:
thank you for this nice code, which caused our gated to crash... Where may i send my bill to :-)))
I suggest the bill be sent to the guy/vendor that injected the bad path :-)
Hmm. If the upstream had been running code that did what the RFC says then Winfried wouldn't have a bill to send to anybody... It isn't like this was the first time we've seen this problem, either.
You really want all backbone routers to ignore AS-Path length in the BGP route selection process? I think I like it better the way it is now - at least for the near future. Hrmm.... Perhaps if the vendors covered the RFC error code type stuff at least, then they could add kewl, new features like "as-path length" as a step in the route selection process.
Andrew
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