23 Jan
2024
23 Jan
'24
11:37 p.m.
On Tue, Jan 23, 2024 at 3:27 PM Tom Beecher <beecher@beecher.cc> wrote:
Unless overridden, BGP takes -distance- into account where distance = AS path length.
An AS_PATH length of 10 could be a physical distance of 1 mile.
An AS_PATH length of 1 could be a physical distance of 1000 miles.
Nevertheless, in the protocol's design, the one expressed in the RFC's, AS path length = distance. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin bill@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/