Here the latest draft with the comments from Blasco. I would like to have this agreed at the latest at the next RIPE meeting. Comments are of course still welcome. However, I am about to depart for a month so they will have to wait to be folded in.
--Tony.
An inconsistency due to working in a hurry, I guess...
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3. Router Representation
The representation must be capable of representing both ``interior'' and ``border'' routers within ones own autonomous system. Each object is uniquely identified by its object name. Here is a simple example of a router object:
inet-rtr: Amsterdam.ripe.net localas: AS3333 ifaddr: 192.87.45.190 ifaddr: 192.87.4.28 ifaddr: 193.0.0.222 peer: 192.87.45.6 AS2122 BGP4 peer: 193.0.0.219 AS2122 BGP peer: 193.0.0.221 AS1104 BGP peer: 192.87.4.18 AS1103 BGP4 peer: 192.87.4.24 AS1103 BGP4 peer: 192.87.4.20 AS286 BGP4 peer: 192.87.4.5 AS3333 IBGP4 peer: 192.87.4.2 AS3333 IGP admin-c: Daniel Karrenberg tech-c: Tony Bates tech-c: Marten Terpstra notify: ops@ripe.net remarks: The router for the RIPE NCC changed: tony@ripe.net 940720 source: RIPE
This object provides several key pieces of information. The exact syntax for each attribute is discussed in the next section. However, some general remarks about this example are worthy of note. From this you can see immediately that this router "Amsterdam.ripe.net" is in the autonomous system 3333 and has three configured inter- faces. You also see that it has several exterior peers and one inte- ^^^ Should be two
rior peer (192.87.45.6). Details of the actual routing protocol are ^^^^^^^^^^^ should be (192.87.4.5, 192.87.4.2)
given. This can be extremely useful. For example a BGP3 router is not CIDR [6] capable whereas a BGP4 capable router is. A tool could use this information when examining routing policy to see if a peer can make use of aggregation. Finally, we also see who we can con- tact when problems occur with this router.
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