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 [SR] If the transit router treated the prefix as "withdrawn", then it will 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
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