On Tue, Nov 01, 2016 at 05:23:38PM +0100, Job Snijders wrote: > On Tue, Nov 01, 2016 at 11:07:19AM -0400, Jeffrey Haas wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 30, 2016 at 05:10:01PM +0100, Job Snijders wrote: > > > NEW2: > > > "Software MUST discard any routes from an EBGP peer, if no import > > > policy was configured." > > > > I rather object to NEW2 and, if included, withdraw any support of this > > draft. > > > > A fundamental issue with this behavior is that it dumps routes that > > would have to be recovered via expensive refresh. > > Am I correct to understand that the word 'discard' has very specific > meaning in this context? Does "discard" mean "forbidden to store in > memory"?
Discard traditionally means "to throw away". To put into familiar context, "keep none" with policy reject. If you're just looking for "you can't use this without import policy specified", you want something along the lines of: In the absence of configured import policy, BGP routes are ineligible for route selection. (RFC 4271, section 9.1.1.) -- Jeff _______________________________________________ GROW mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/grow
