On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 9:37 PM, Saikat Ray (sairay) <[email protected]> wrote: > If a transit router in your AS treats-as-withdraw a prefix, other routers may > try to send traffic across it, but the router which has treated-as-withdraw > will either have no information for that route, or it will have made a > different bestpath choice. This could cause a loop or a blackhole. > > [SR] If the transit router treated the prefix as "withdrawn", then it will > remove the corresponding path. If there are no other paths for that net, then > the router would send withdraws for that prefix to its own peers. So no other > router would send traffic to it in the steady state.
Perhaps you read "ASBR" where in fact I wrote "transit router?" The behavior you describe is wrong. -- Jeff S Wheeler <[email protected]> Sr Network Operator / Innovative Network Concepts _______________________________________________ GROW mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/grow
