[AusNOG] Small Pipe BNE/Agile issue

[Matthew Moyle-Croft]

James Spenceley wrote:
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> We are about to bring up the Any2 MLPA in San Jose and they (from 
> first glance) don't actually send the route-server AS in the path, 
> which is really cool.
>
> I'm not sure how they do it, but this is from their technical FAQ.
>
> "no bgp enforce-first-as, This is due to the fact that a route server 
> doesn't send itself (its AS and IP you peer with in the next hop - it 
> sends you the AS and IP of the peer's next hop)."
If it wasn't global I'd probably be okay with it - but on our US routers 
at least it's a global setting and I believe gives some risk.
> I was talking about routing policy, the relationship is bilateral 
> between you and the route-sever, they decide the "global" policy. 
That's the problem - _I_ want to decide global policy for me - not 
someone else's route server.  I point to the discussion above and below 
you're making about trying to deaggregate to influence policy - clearly 
YOU also want to control global policy.

> I'm not asking anyone to accept >/24s just saying that it actually a 
> very valid way to traffic engineer, some people seem to have take 
> offense at being sent routes >/24 and if they want to filter go ahead. 
> I'll keep my options open.
So, would you like a fence to sit on here James? :-)

MMC