[YA] Fwd: Class B Purchase

Wed Oct 7 15:25:04 UTC 1998

>> second, if they (AS5662) were connected to MCI/CW rather than
>> Sprint, they would be unreachable with this announcement, other
>> than the fact that ANS would be announcing the aggregate, and following
>> that path, rather than having the actual as-path be traversed.
> Uhm but an AS-path is a trail of bread-crumbs to prevent an announcement
> loop, not a proper predictor of the forwarding-path towards the origin.

but, as jared was talking about filtering of routes, forwarding path is
quite irrelevant.

randy