a crude method of limiting long-prefix propagation

Joe Abley jabley-ietf at automagic.org
Sun Mar 25 04:23:24 UTC 2001


On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 07:39:38PM -0800, john heasley wrote:
> Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 08:50:06AM -0500, Joe Abley:
> > That's true -- however, I wasn't sure how widely a match for N:* was
> > supported (I hear you can do it on ciscos and junipers though). If
> > there are routers that can't match a wildcard community string, the
> > :0 value would allow more widespread support.
> 
> probably, exists...3com, bay, ...  does gated have support?

Don't know. I don't know how widespread gated is outside the lab, either.

I sent a question to nanog about this, so hopefully if there's a router
out there in common use that can't do a wildcard compare, someone will
tell me about it.


Joe



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