Support for BGP route reflection.

Ondrej Zajicek santiago at crfreenet.org
Wed Oct 15 23:57:42 CEST 2008


On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 10:39:03AM +0200, Martin Mares wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > Fixes are attached as patch following bird-md5.diff . Or should
> > i send corrected original patches?
> 
> Please send corrected original patches, it will be easier to
> follow in the history.

OK, here they are.

> > BTW, in bgp_rte_better() we compare MEDs between routes from different
> > ASes, although RFC says that MED is only comparable between routes
> > learned from the same neighboring AS. Is this bug or some cleverness?
> 
> The same-AS rule has been introduced in RFC 4271, which is much newer
> than the BGP code in BIRD. The tie breaking algorithm in RFC 1771
> compares MEDs even for different ASes.

Thank you for explanation, i will fix it.

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