Question about AS Origin changes
Florian Weimer
fweimer at bfk.de
Fri Mar 25 13:53:16 UTC 2011
* Yaoqing Liu:
> I am wondering if anyone can give me possible reasons for some uncommon BGP
> origin change activity. What we see is that sometimes the origin for a
> prefix seems to change from a customer AS to it upstream provider and back.
> In many instances the prefix simply switches back and forth for hours or
> even days and sometimes very rapidly . Below I’m including an example of
> some of the activities I see.
This is expected if the upstream has a static route for the prefix (or
a route which redistributed from another routing protocol). This
could be a leftover from a non-BGP setup with the customer. Or this
could be some sort of backup procedure (perhaps prompted by the
instability of the BGP link).
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