BGP TTL

[Pekka Savola]

On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Andrew Partan wrote:
> However even a setting of (say) 10 would limit the count-to-infinity
> problem - see, e.g.: the current 6bone & their *very* long AS paths.
> [As the 6bone today is mostly full of mutual-transit peerings, you
> can get some very long count-to-infinity paths.]

Just as an aside: the huge AS-paths were thought to be an implementation
bug (discussed on 6bone at isi.edu list) which generates bogus routes.  I
believe the culprit was already found and fixed, but then those routes
re-appeared again, so probably not..

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Pekka Savola                 "Tell me of difficulties surmounted,
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