Re: BGP "Allowas-in" -- scenarios to use this?

Definitely, but I mean strip the (private) customer AS when
advertising it to another site, so the customer won't have to deal
with this loop prevention and wouldn't know what the f.. to do :-)

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On 18 aug 2009, at 22:51, Marko Milivojevic wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 20:43, Rick Mur<rmur_at_ipexpert.com> wrote:
>> And of course a good SP will strip that AS from the AS_PATH using
>> 'as-override' or some similar feature :-)
>
> Assumption is mother of all f.... ;-) Feature wouldn't be there if
> SP's were that friendly :-).
>
> Now, on a serious note, sometime you don't want that information
> stripped. Especially if you are SP yourself. You'd rather hide other
> carrier from path, than remove yours... :-)
>
>
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