Re: [Idr] advertising more than one route to a destination
Paul Jakma <paul@clubi.ie> Mon, 15 August 2005 16:17 UTC
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On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, Yakov Rekhter wrote:
> Folks,
>
> As you know the basic BGP spec currently restricts a BGP speaker
> to advertise at most a single route to a given destination (given
> address prefix).
>
> The purpose of this e-mail is to solicit opinions on (a) what
> applications could benefit if the above restriction is relaxed, as
> to allow a BGP speaker to advertise multiple routes to a given
> destination, and (b) whether the IDR WG should start work on
> extending BGP to support these applications.
a) eBGP Route-servers at IXes, to act as 'dumb'
(non-best-path-selecting) reflectors so as to reduce eBGP 'mesh'
between IX users.
iBGP reflectors, to reduce route-oscillations (see Walton, et al).
b) Yes.
Note: there's at least one private draft examining this.
regards,
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