On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 11:08:14PM +0100, Arnold Nipper wrote:

What does

BGP.10 [t]: 00 02 1a 07 00 00 fa 00 00 02 1a 07 00 00 fd e8 mean?

This is 'extended communities' path attribute, which is unsupported by BIRD. 'BGP.10' means it is BGP path attribute with hexadecimal code 10 (thus decadic code 16). The rest is a hexadecimal dump of the attribute. The list of known path attributes is here: http://www.iana.org/assignments/bgp-parameters/ -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Ondrej 'SanTiago' Zajicek (email: santiago@crfreenet.org) OpenPGP encrypted e-mails preferred (KeyID 0x11DEADC3, wwwkeys.pgp.net) "To err is human -- to blame it on a computer is even more so."