[Xorp-users] handling of BGP updates with multiple prefixes

[Marc Evans]

Typically, no. Companies like Sockeye Networks, NetVMG, and RouteScience
specialize in equipment that complement routing devices to provide better
decision logic.

- Marc

On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Patrick Verkaik wrote:

>
> Do you know whether BGP routers (commercial or free) are able to handle
> prefixes that are equivalent (in terms of routing) in some intelligent
> way? For example, suppose a router has a number of prefixes in its RIB
> with the same attributes.  Further assume that the router does not have
> any particular policy configured that differentiates between those
> prefixes.  Now it receives a BGP update (announcement or withdrawal)
> covering also that same set of prefixes.  Is the router capable of
> optimising the handling of the BGP update by performing (some of) the
> necessary route computations just once for all the prefixes?
>
>
> 	Patrick
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Xorp-users mailing list
> Xorp-users@xorp.org
> http://mailman.ICSI.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/xorp-users
>