Vince,

ATOMIC_AGGREGATE is set when as-set is not used. This signifies that path
information for some destinations in the aggregate may not be what it seems.
For more information see RFC 4271, section 5.1.6:

http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4271.txt

On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 12:55 PM, Mashburn, Vince <[email protected]>wrote:

>  Can someone give me a clear explanation of the BGP Atomic Aggregate
> attribute?  My understanding is that it is set when a router aggregates
> routes, propagates that aggregated route down stream, AND has the AS-SET
> command on the aggregate, then the atomic aggregate attribute is set.  So,
> what does this attribute do then?  Is it just telling routers that if there
> is another route with the same mask as the aggregate route, then prefer that
> route over the aggregate?  If so, then why is not also set without the
> AS-SET aggregate command?  Just trying to understand…
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> Thanks,
>
> Vince Mashburn
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