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Subject:    [zebra 21977] Re: how to set bgp to select best path
From:       "john smith" <johnsmith0302 () hotmail ! com>
Date:       2004-11-15 6:29:16
Message-ID: BAY17-F36sl3xbYiMCI0007f3fe () hotmail ! com
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hehe :)

RFC 1771 , RFC 1267 , RFC 1163

I dont know but i my country , most people tend to refer to the RFC or the 
original paper on path vector algorithm (lookup PAIRS in citeseer) 
....mainly as the papers are free and are much easier to understand than the 
books..........

the best ofcourse is to read RIP, or the original arpanet bellman-ford 
routing algorithm and figure out a way to solve the "16" count to infinity 
/convergence  problem by giving the node an identifier......... a lot of 
things in BGP become very obvious that way...

I have nothing against the book, but frankly, i dont think one can use 
something till one doesnt try solving the problem on his own.
There was a good book by Jef doyle and Matt Kolon called juniper network 
routers too, and i actually found the way BGP was explained in that book 
much better than Sam's BGP book. (the OReilly by Iljitsch van Beijnum is 
good too...so i have heard)...

wonder why the authors of BGP never wrote a book on BGP :( ...guess they 
wanted us to do our own homework...



>From: Arnold Nipper <arnold@nipper.de>
>To: john smith <johnsmith0302@hotmail.com>
>CC: zebra@ml.zebra.org
>Subject: Re: [zebra 21970] Re: how to set bgp to select best path
>Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 02:10:53 +0100
>
>On 14.11.2004 01:00 john smith wrote
>
>>>As recommended ... try to dive a little bit deeper into bgp world. E.g.
>>>by working through Sam Halabi's excellent book.
>>
>>
>>IMHO,the book sucks :) but then i worked for a research lab when i read 
>>it......
>>
>
>So, why don't you write a book on BGP which sucks less ;-) Or at least 
>recommend one. That would at least be constructive :-)
>
>
>
>
>Arnold

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