RE: draft-ietf-idr-bgp4-mibv2-03.txt
"Natale, Jonathan" <JNatale@celoxnetworks.com> Tue, 19 November 2002 17:19 UTC
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From: "Natale, Jonathan" <JNatale@celoxnetworks.com>
To: 'Jeffrey Haas' <jhaas@nexthop.com>
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Subject: RE: draft-ietf-idr-bgp4-mibv2-03.txt
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 12:22:04 -0500
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thanks, jeff i think vendor defined text would suffice and be the most extensible > -----Original Message----- > From: Jeffrey Haas [mailto:jhaas@nexthop.com] > Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 12:09 PM > To: Natale, Jonathan > Cc: idr@merit.edu > Subject: Re: draft-ietf-idr-bgp4-mibv2-03.txt > > > Jonathon, > > On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 10:19:24AM -0500, Natale, Jonathan wrote: > > I think you had suggested an object to indicate which > step/attribute was > > used to select/not select the route as best. I think this > is a good idea. > > I think operators would find this particularly useful. :-) > > > Has this been formally drafted anywhere? > > Not at the moment. However, the recent draft: > BGP Custom Decision Process > (draft-retana-bgp-custom-decision-00.txt)o > > gives a start to this by enumerating route selection steps. > > The biggest obstacle to doing this is formally enumerating the > route selection steps and permitting them to vary from vendor to > vendor since no one seems to be interested in getting things to the > level of 100% consistancy. > > Then again, something kinky (at least in the MIB) could be done > such that the object contains an index into a table that contains > the vendor's implementation of route selection. A dump of that > table would show what all the steps are. > > Given that vendors allow tweaking of the process via knob in many > cases, even that is probably not 100% feasible. > > The best we could probably hope for is a text description of where > we stopped. > > > I did not see it in > > draft-ietf-idr-bgp4-mibv2-03.txt, but I may have missed it. > > At this point, I'm not arbitrarily putting stuff in the v2MIB without > group consensus. However, given some of the recommendations made at > the IDR session (e.g. injecting multiple route instances), the > MIB may require serious tweaking. > > -- > Jeff Haas > NextHop Technologies >
- draft-ietf-idr-bgp4-mibv2-03.txt Gray, Eric
- Re: draft-ietf-idr-bgp4-mibv2-03.txt Jeffrey Haas
- RE: draft-ietf-idr-bgp4-mibv2-03.txt Natale, Jonathan
- Re: draft-ietf-idr-bgp4-mibv2-03.txt Jeffrey Haas
- RE: draft-ietf-idr-bgp4-mibv2-03.txt Natale, Jonathan
- Re: draft-ietf-idr-bgp4-mibv2-03.txt Jeffrey Haas
- RE: draft-ietf-idr-bgp4-mibv2-03.txt Natale, Jonathan
- Re: draft-ietf-idr-bgp4-mibv2-03.txt Jeffrey Haas
- [Idr] draft-ietf-idr-bgp4-mibv2-03.txt Susan Hares