RE: Internal Update Process of BGP4

Anoop Ghanwani <anoop@cosinecom.com> Wed, 09 May 2001 18:38 UTC

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From: Anoop Ghanwani <anoop@cosinecom.com>
To: 'deepak_srivastava' <deepak_srivastava@infy.com>, idr@merit.edu
Subject: RE: Internal Update Process of BGP4
Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 10:56:37 -0700
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> You will know that x3 is your best route for putting in Loc-RIB, ONLY
> AFTER
> phase2, but its written in draft and rfc1771 both, that 
> internal updates
> can
> be sent (after/as part of) phase 1 itself.

I think all that this is saying is that a peer should send its updates
based on its set of best (active) routes without waiting forever to 
receive an update from its neighbor...it just gets the process going.
Every active route has already been through the path selection 
criteria.  What do you think is a more approriate algorithm?

-Anoop