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Practical BGP
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Practical BGP

by Danny McPherson, Russ White, Sangli Srihari
July 2004
Intermediate to advanced
448 pages
10h 7m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Outbound Route Filtering

Outbound Route Filtering (ORF), described in IETF Internet-Drafts draft-ietf-idr-route-filter, draft-chen-bgp-prefix-orf, and draft-ietf-idr-aspath-orf, allows a BGP speaker to tell its peers what routes it will not accept based on local policy rules; this allows the speaker to not send those routes it knows will be discarded anyway, thereby saving resources on both sides on the connection. Figure 6.9 illustrates.

Figure 6.9. Outbound route filtering.

AS65501's network administrators are trying to receive enough routes to optimally route along their two upstream providers but don't want to accept full routes from both ...

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