Re: Can I change the as-path?

From: Peter van Oene (pvo@usermail.com)
Date: Wed Feb 12 2003 - 00:26:54 GMT-3

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At 10:09 AM 2/12/2003 +0800, Fan Shan wrote:
>BGP configuration:
>
>R1---------------R2---------------------R3
>AS1-------------AS2--------------------AS3
>
>Assume a loopback interface 192.168.1.0 /24 on R1, and was advertised to R3.
>The as-path on R3 should be 2-1,
>can I change it to be 2 , as it is originated from AS2?

Not without originating the same prefix in AS2. The AS-Path sequence
attribute represents loop detection in BGP. Changing paths arbitrarily
breaks it.

Pete

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