Rayhaan wanted to know if the peer accepted his route. A looking glass is a different thing in many ways.
Several years ago Ignas pointed out that you can use this information to know whether to install a backup on your side for the route. Backup routes in the forwarding hardware are expensive, so it would be good to know if your peer is using your route before installing a backup for it. BGP has a peer-to-peer only signaling mechanism: ORF. Can we invent an ORF for it? Rayhaan, please let me know if I'm on or off track for your use case. Regards, Jakob. -----Original Message----- From: GROW <grow-boun...@ietf.org> On Behalf Of heasley Sent: Monday, April 26, 2021 4:23 PM To: Christopher Morrow <christopher.mor...@gmail.com> Cc: grow@ietf.org grow@ietf.org <grow@ietf.org> Subject: Re: [GROW] BGP Looking Glass Capability Mon, Apr 26, 2021 at 06:25:44PM -0400, Christopher Morrow: > (as normal netizen) > > On Mon, Apr 26, 2021 at 3:33 PM Randy Bush <ra...@psg.com> wrote: > > > > Place LG info in peeringdb.com & peeringdb's api. > > > > +1 > > > > huh,I had thought this was already actually included in peeringdb? > <clipped from 7018's page> > Looking Glass URL http://route-server.ip.att.net > </clip> afict, its just a string, which does not provide a standard way to represent location/geo. i presume from earlier comments, that something more structured is desired. _______________________________________________ GROW mailing list GROW@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/grow _______________________________________________ GROW mailing list GROW@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/grow
