[6bone] Newbie BGP questions

[Philip Smith]

At 10:12 06/03/2003 +0200, Hank Nussbacher wrote:
>Please excuse the newbie questions.  Looking thru the BGPv6 table I came 
>across some things that I didn't understand:
><snip>
>2) The AS paths are usually short (3-5 hops) but 2 caught my eye:
>
>*> 3FFE:F00::/24    3FFE:2000:0:41D::22F
>                                                            0 559 9044 
> 5424 10318 5623 6939 6939 2042 3836 4618 9264 7660 22388 11537 786 1853 
> 1853 1853 1853 1853 6680 1103 2602 2200 9112 6830 12702 3549 4697 10566 
> 13944 22 i
>
>*> 3FFE:1F00::/24   3FFE:2000:0:41D::22F
>                                                            0 559 9044 
> 5424 10318 12199 145 4554 278 6435 17715 6939 4716 2500 4697 3320 293 
> 6175 7580 10566 15180 1251 1916 11537 22 5609 6830 1755 i
>
>Is this normal?

If they bother you, you can ignore them on a Cisco router by using the "bgp 
maxas-limit N" command, where "N" is the max AS-path length you want to 
see. Doesn't fix the problem, but at least helps stop it from being 
propagated any further.

philip
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