Order of ASes in the BGP Path

Tue Aug 30 10:02:18 UTC 2005

On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Abhishek Verma wrote:

> 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.

from time to time people say 'but the rfc says...'. but theres a big place for 
precedent and common practice too.

Steve