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| author | Ondrej Zajicek (work) <santiago@crfreenet.org> | 2019-11-05 16:00:25 +0100 |
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| committer | Ondrej Zajicek (work) <santiago@crfreenet.org> | 2019-11-05 16:00:25 +0100 |
| commit | d54a69ac7f0a29846cd9dbc697d1d369f51988bb (patch) | |
| tree | b2cf4fb8747ff48780f74cc86261846ea23a9ed9 /doc | |
| parent | 10c4cd9677555e88a4ac8c95784aa281655e3326 (diff) | |
| download | bird-d54a69ac7f0a29846cd9dbc697d1d369f51988bb.tar.gz | |
Doc: Add documentation for BGP option 'allow as sets'
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diff --git a/doc/bird.sgml b/doc/bird.sgml index 384af835..e0f4fb76 100644 --- a/doc/bird.sgml +++ b/doc/bird.sgml @@ -2395,6 +2395,16 @@ using the following configuration parameters: completely disabled and you should ensure loop-free behavior by some other means. Default: 0 (no local AS number allowed). + <tag><label id="bgp-allow-as-sets">allow as sets [<m/switch/]</tag> + AS path attribute received with BGP routes may contain not only + sequences of AS numbers, but also sets of AS numbers. These rarely used + artifacts are results of inter-AS route aggregation. AS sets are + deprecated (<rfc id="6472">), and likely to be rejected in the future, + as they complicate security features like RPKI validation. When this + option is disabled, then received AS paths with AS sets are rejected as + malformed and corresponding BGP updates are treated as withdraws. + Default: off. + <tag><label id="bgp-enable-route-refresh">enable route refresh <m/switch/</tag> After the initial route exchange, BGP protocol uses incremental updates to keep BGP speakers synchronized. Sometimes (e.g., if BGP speaker |