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Re: BCP38 For BGP Customers


From: William Herrin <bill () herrin us>
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2022 10:27:02 -0800

On Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 10:08 AM Grant Taylor via NANOG <nanog () nanog org> wrote:
I wonder if Feasible Path uRPF or Enhanced Feasible Path uRPF might help
the situation.  However I suspect they both suffer from the FIB != RIB
problem and associated signaling.

Hi Grant,

That's a fairly good way to think about it. BGP knows -a- path and
sometimes it knows more than one but it simply doesn't have signal on
the totality of feasible paths for a particular IP address. No
distance-vector protocol can.

Regards,
Bill Herrin


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