Weird BGP Issue

Wed Jul 22 15:59:37 UTC 1998

Say, whatever happened to the wonderful patent pending tool from
Priori (see below) which will fix all the horrible problems with
BGP with its broken blahs and prepending traffic to places and
obviously very difficult to use terminology?

I'm sure many people are interested in such an operational tool,
and it's now even topical, given the discussion revolves around
BGP's path selection as it relates to operators.

	Sean.
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| So, in many cases shortcuts are
| taken such as prepend all of so and so's traffic through connection A, or,
| perhaps in your case, prefer connection A for /16 blocks or larger, and B
| for smaller...
...
| What you really need is a cut and paste of a few sho ip bgp blahs and sho
| ip route blahs....
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> From: "Robert L. Shearing" <robert at priori.net>
> Subject: Re: hmm..wierd shit at priori
> Message-Id: <3.0.32.19980202191654.00bf3e88 at local.mail.priori.net>
> Date: Mon, 02 Feb 1998 19:16:56 -0800
> 
...
> Subsequently Priori hired a CTO, Chris Icide, who invented a routing
> technology that allow Priori to blow out the competition in routing
> performance.
...
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> From: "Robert L. Shearing" <robert at priori.net>
> Subject: Re: hmm..wierd shit at priori
> Date: Sun, 01 Feb 1998 22:51:01 -0800
> Message-Id: <3.0.32.19980201225100.00be2980 at local.mail.priori.net>
> 
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> Second,
> we agreed that the way BGP-4 determines path selection is primitive almost
> to the point of stupidity.  
> 
> Chris invented a dynamic and robust new routing technology, not yet
> officially announced, that is far smarter than BGP-4.  We believe this
> technology will give Priori a substantial performance edge over all other
> National Internet Backbones, including Savvis, by June, 1998.  Indeed, we
> believe this technology will all but eliminate 404 (Cannot reach that
> destination) errors for customers of the Company. This technology is now
> patent pending. 
...
> There you have it.  The Special Report on how Priori ran into some
> technical glitches early on, overcame them and then became the industry
> performance leader in a period of eight months.
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> Robert L. Shearing                voice: +1-650-482-2840        
> President/CEO                       fax: +1-650-482-2844
> PRIORI NETWORKS, INC.              http://www.priori.net