Equal-Cost Multipath Considerations for BGP
draft-lapukhov-bgp-ecmp-considerations-01
| Document | Type | Expired Internet-Draft (individual) | |
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| Author | Petr Lapukhov | ||
| Last updated | 2018-05-03 (Latest revision 2017-10-30) | ||
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Abstract
BGP routing protocol defined in ([RFC4271]) employs tie-breaking logic to elect single best path among multiple possible. At the same time, it has been common in all practical BGP implementations to allow for "equal-cost multipath" (ECMP) path election and programming of multiple next-hops in routing tables. This documents provides some common considerations for the ECMP logic, with the intent of providing common reference on otherwise unstandardized feature.
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