a crude method of limiting long-prefix propagation

[john heasley]

Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 11:23:24PM -0500, Joe Abley:
> 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.

actually, the lab was why i mentioned it.

> 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