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Title : Advertising Equal Cost Multi-Path (ECMP) routes in BGP
Author(s) : M. Bhatia
Filename : draft-bhatia-ecmp-routes-in-bgp-00.txt
Pages : 7
Date : 2003-5-14
This document describes an extensible mechanism that will allow a
BGP [BGP4] speaker to advertise equal cost multi-path (ECMP) routes
for a destination to its peers without changing the semantics of the
UPDATE message.
A new BGP attribute is introduced that will be used to advertise the
multiple next hops for the feasible and the un-feasible ECMP BGP
routes to the remote peers.
The mechanisms described in this document are applicable to all
routers, both those with the ability to inject multiple routing
entries in their forwarding table and those without (although the
latter need not implement some extensions described in this document).
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