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Title : Enhanced BGP Capabilities for Exchanging Second-best and Back-up Paths
Author(s) : B. Dickson
Filename : draft-dickson-idr-second-best-backup-01.txt
Pages : 26
Date : 2008-02-25
This Internet Draft describes an enhanced way to exchange prefix
information, to permit multiple copies of a prefix with different
paths to be announced and withdrawn.
This negotiated capability provides faster local (inter-AS) and
global (intra-AS) convergence, reduces path-hunting, improves route-
reflector behaviour, including eliminating both persistent
oscillations and BGP "wedgies".
Additional prefix instances have new optional BGP attributes, to
control path selection.
Withdrawl of prefixes will require new attributes to disambiguate
prefix instances.
Benefits are seen both when deployed intra-AS, and on inter-AS
peering.Author's Note
This Internet Draft is intended to result in this draft or a related
draft(s) being placed on the Standards Track for idr.
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