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Re: [GROW] draft-ietf-grow-simple-va

Jakob Heitz <jakob.heitz@ericsson.com> Mon, 30 April 2012 23:51 UTC

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Subject: Re: [GROW] draft-ietf-grow-simple-va
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On Monday, April 30, 2012 1:01 PM, Robert Raszuk <mailto:robert@raszuk.net> wrote:

> Disconnect ! Simple-va does not remove routes from RIB. It suppresses
> overlapping less specific one.

quote from the draft
...suppress certain routes from being installed in RIB and FIB tables.

If they are "suppressed from being installed in RIB"
then they can't be used to resolve nexthops or to be redistributed.

> However redistribution of BGP to other protocols is 
> usually not that good of an idea 

Redistribution of some selected BGP routes does occur.
Not just into IGP and LDP, but also into applications.

-- 
Jakob Heitz.

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