Active BGP Probing and large AS-sets

Thu Jun 9 15:24:00 UTC 2005

Jeroen Massar wrote:
> And it also makes clear why it didn't pop up in GRH, as when you insert
> the GRH ASN 8298 it won't be announced to GRH and thus it doesn't get
> detected and as quite a number of people check only there it can go
> quite unnoticed in the IPv6 tables...*

Actually, we never inserted AS8298 in any of the AS-sets we announced, 
so you should have seen them...

> Sidetracking: BGP should never accept a path from another peer
> containing the ASN of a directly connected peer... does it or not?

Hmm, I don't know. It wouldn't likely be selected as best path, of 
course, but why shouldn't it be accepted?

Regards,
Lorenzo

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