Re: inter-domain te

[Yakov Rekhter <yakov@juniper.net>]

Jim,

> On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Tom Scott wrote:
> 
> > Jim,
> >
> > I think you're referring to the manipulation of attribute values in
> > BGP updates to do traffice engineering among autonomous systems. That
> > brings up a related issue: the use of non-routers such as network
> > management system consoles in traffic engineering. Iin
> > draft-ietf-idr-bgp4-14.txt, authors Rekhter and Li mention:
> >
> >    A non-routing host could exchange routing information with routers
> >    via EGP or even an interior routing protocol. That non-routing host
> >    could then use BGP to exchange routing information with a border
> >    router in another Autonomous System. The implications and
> >    applications of this architecture are for further study.
> 
> Mr. Rekhter can best tell us what in particular this means, but if I had
> to take my guess, this is not an "NMS".  

Your guess is correct.

> It is a host, running routing
> software, and distributing routing information, though it has no
> forwarding responsibilities (maybe "non-forwarding" would be better than
> "non-routing" ?).  

Correct.

Yakov.