Any place that does not receive a new BGP update can not be helped. Even with a beacon. Therefore, a freshness indicator in the BGP update itself is enough to invalidate less fresh updates.
Only freshen the BGP update when you actually have a dispute with your old provider. -- Jakob Heitz. On Mar 29, 2012, at 9:51 AM, "Jakob Heitz" <[email protected]> wrote: > Could we not put a freshness indication into the BGP update? > Then everyone that receives the new update would know to invalidate the less > fresh paths. > > Here is the key point: > The new update will reach everywhere that it needs to go. > Won't it? > > No expiry time needed. > > -- > Jakob Heitz. > _______________________________________________ > sidr mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/sidr _______________________________________________ sidr mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/sidr
