Re: [Idr] Progressing draft-bhatia-bgp-multiple-next-hops-01.txt

[Paul Jakma <paul at clubi.ie>]

Hi John,

On Thu, 24 Aug 2006, John G. Scudder wrote:

> If true that seems like a deficiency, since it may be desirable in 
> some cases to advertise non-used but feasible routes (e.g., "best 
> external") for reasons of fast convergence.

> I'm not sure whether such routes need to be explicitly labeled as 
> not used for forwarding, but I am moderately sure we don't want to 
> preclude them.

We potentially could add a flag field to MULTIPLE_HOP for this, to 
signal this on a per-nexthop basis (and then could be used for a 
per-nexthop implicit withdrawal flag too), if thought to be 
desireable.

regards,
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