[6bone] IPv6 route server

[Pekka Savola]

On Thu, 8 Aug 2002, John Fraizer wrote:
> I am currious what soft-reconfiguration has to do with bestpath selection
> and redistribution?

There is a feature/bug [in Cisco (noticed on GSR 12.0(22)S) at least] that
unless you have soft-reconfiguration inbound, 'sh bgp ipv6 xxx' shows only 
the best path.

Looked quite similar to me, but perhaps I was taking conclusions too far
:-)

> On Thu, 8 Aug 2002, Pekka Savola wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 7 Aug 2002, John Fraizer wrote:
> > > This would be slick if it acted like a route-server.  It only shows your
> > > selected best path from your border router(s) though.
> > > 
> > > route-server.ndsoftwarenet.net> sh ipv6 bgp 2001:4f0::1
> > > BGP routing table entry for 2001:4f0::/35
> > > Paths: (1 available, best #1, table Default-IP-Routing-Table)
> > >   Not advertised to any peer
> > >   13944
> > >     3ffe:81f1:0:2::1 from 3ffe:81f1:0:2::1 (62.4.18.114)
> > >     (fe80::260:97ff:fe0c:9803)
> > >       Origin IGP, metric 800, localpref 100, valid, internal, best
> > >       Community: 65526:502 65526:511 65526:521 65526:900 65526:1000 65526:1500
> > >       Last update: Thu Aug  8 01:43:08 2002
> > > 
> > > I really appreciate your taking the time to modify the zebra code and
> > > would like to see a patch against the latest CVS posted to the Zebra
> > > list.
> > [...]
> > 
> > 'soft-reconfiguration inbound' on the server's configuration should fix 
> > that.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Pekka Savola                 "Tell me of difficulties surmounted,
> > Netcore Oy                   not those you stumble over and fall"
> > Systems. Networks. Security.  -- Robert Jordan: A Crown of Swords
> > 
> 

-- 
Pekka Savola                 "Tell me of difficulties surmounted,
Netcore Oy                   not those you stumble over and fall"
Systems. Networks. Security.  -- Robert Jordan: A Crown of Swords