Open Source BGP Route Optimization?

Fri May 28 16:34:52 UTC 2004

On 28.05.2004 15:37 Per Gregers Bilse wrote:

> On May 28, 10:37am, "Sam Stickland" <sam_ml at spacething.org> wrote:
>>in this direction. IIRC the problem isn't to do with the route annoucements,
>>it's the route withdrawals. I believe BGP only specifies the prefix being
>>withdrawn and not the path, so if it's advertised multiple paths to a prefix
>>it's impossible to know which has been withdrawn.
> 
> 
> That is 100% correct, yes.  Selective withdrawal is not supported.
> 

Wouldn't Equal Cost Multi-Path (ECMP) solve this?

Arnold