From: Peter van Oene (pvo@xxxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Fri Apr 05 2002 - 16:28:37 GMT-3
I'm not sure if proprietary is entirely the right term, maybe
implementation specific would be better. Most vendors tend to include the
number of elements in an AS_Path as considered items in a tie break process
however as you point out, the RFC does not state that this need be.
At 11:21 AM 4/5/2002 -0500, David Lee Steele, Jr. wrote:
>Cisco uses the size(how many entries exist) of the AS_PATH attribute to
>determine the best route in case of a tie. Is this something
>proprietary to Cisco's implementation of BGP, or did I miss something
>when reading RFC 1771?
>
>I could not find any mention of this being used as one of the
>tie-breaking criteria in the RFC.
>
>David Lee Steele, Jr.
>
>
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