On Wed, 2008-09-24 at 16:30 +0200, Hannes Gredler wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 04:08:02PM +0200, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:
> | Basically all nodes which announce 0.0.0.0/0 (or combination of subnets
> | which result in the same) are such gateway nodes.
> | So you just have to find all nodes with such HNAs.
> 
> i'd agree - howver it turns out that we have a code piece
> in the HNA input path which rejects any incoming prefixes which we are
> advertising on our own - so if you advertise a 0/0 to the outside world
> we are blind for remote 0/0 advertisements.
> 
> IMO we can remove this check because local HNA routes (read: cost 0)
> are always preferred over remote HNA routes.

ACK, I'm also not a fan on *discarding* information as soon as possible.
Ignoring later should be enough.
And I don't think that it could kill performance ....

	Bernd
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