Order of ASes in the BGP Path

Tue Aug 30 01:05:06 UTC 2005

Since i smell some traces of sarcasm here.

On 8/30/05, Randy Bush <randy at psg.com> wrote: 
> 
> > I thank everyone who took time off their busy schedules and answered me 
> on
> > this. I now understand that people do look at the AS_PATH and the order 
> of
> > ASes is important for debugging, etc.
> 
> and thank you for reading the rfc

 Randy,
 I respect your knowledge and wisdom and that of other people on this list 
here which is why i asked this question. Yes, i have gone through the RFC 
1771 throughly and trust me it does not mention any other use of this Path 
attribute, except for the path length/loop detection. People on this list 
have a *lot* of experience and its these people who actually use this 
protocol.
 To me these were the best people to tell me if they indeed use it for other 
purposes also.
 Thanks,
Abhishek

randy
> 
> 

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