RE: MED for Originated Routes
"Natale, Jonathan" <JNatale@celoxnetworks.com> Fri, 04 October 2002 13:35 UTC
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From: "Natale, Jonathan" <JNatale@celoxnetworks.com>
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Subject: RE: MED for Originated Routes
Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2002 09:36:53 -0400
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The point is: "the base spec does not say what to set the MED to for originated routes" ...the fact that Juniper and Cisco chose sensible things to do is not an argument for the spec to be silent, is it? Also, didn't the old spec say to treat a missing MED as all 1's? (not sure if this is relevant) -----Original Message----- From: Mathew Richardson [mailto:mrr@nexthop.com] Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 5:59 PM To: Natale, Jonathan Cc: 'John G. Scudder'; 'curtis@fictitious.org'; idr@merit.edu Subject: Re: MED for Originated Routes > Natale, Jonathan <JNatale@celoxnetworks.com> [Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at >05:30:11PM -0400]: Since no MED is equivalent to MED = 0 *in this >case*, they are interoperable. But the base spec does not say what to >set the MED to for originated routes. So I need to disagree, an >addition to the spec is called for. <snip> The absence of an MED is equivalent to a MED of zero in all cases. mrr
- MED for Originated Routes Natale, Jonathan
- Re: MED for Originated Routes Curtis Villamizar
- RE: MED for Originated Routes Natale, Jonathan
- Re: MED for Originated Routes Curtis Villamizar
- RE: MED for Originated Routes John G. Scudder
- RE: MED for Originated Routes Natale, Jonathan
- Re: MED for Originated Routes Mathew Richardson
- Re: MED for Originated Routes Curtis Villamizar
- Re: MED for Originated Routes Curtis Villamizar
- RE: MED for Originated Routes Natale, Jonathan
- Re: MED for Originated Routes Jeffrey Haas