>Well, it is not really much different from 'secondary' option - have some
ordering of available paths, announce the first N paths vs. announce the
first path that pass filters.

Right.

On Wed, Oct 2, 2024 at 4:27 PM Ondrej Zajicek <santi...@crfreenet.org>
wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 02, 2024 at 02:42:00PM +0200, Maria Matejka via Bird-users
> wrote:
> > Hello Donatas!
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 02, 2024 at 02:29:40PM +0300, Donatas Abraitis wrote:
> >
> > > I hope this is the right place to ask for feature requests.
> >
> > Yes, it is!
> >
> > > Would you mind adding this [1]draft  to your TODO (/ feature) list?
> >
> > After reading the draft, I understand that the actual algorithm on how
> > to choose the set of paths to be sent, is outside the scope of the
> > document. I consider this a major problem which may lead to hard-to-fix
> > long-term traffic loops between differing implementations.
>
> That mostly depends on usage pattern, and if the set of announced paths
> contains the best path, then routing loops would be transient, like
> if you send just one path.
>
>
> > There are thoughts on actually implementing this in BIRD.
> > Regarding the current development priorities, this is expected to be
> > implemented (if it actually happens) in BIRD 3 only, and only after we
> > implement some more structural changes in the route storage. Otherwise,
> > this is going to be a performance nightmare.
>
> Well, it is not really much different from 'secondary' option - have some
> ordering of available paths, announce the first N paths vs. announce the
> first path that pass filters.
>
> --
> Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo
>
> Ondrej 'Santiago' Zajicek (email: santi...@crfreenet.org)
> "To err is human -- to blame it on a computer is even more so."
>


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Donatas

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