On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 10:44:38PM +0300, bitbucket wrote:
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> 11.12.07, 20:43, Claudio Jeker (cjeker@diehard.n-r-g.com):
> 
> > On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 06:41:30PM +0300, bitbucket wrote:
> > > How I can aggregate small prefixes, received from internal peers into
> > > big one in openbgpd ? Like cisco's 'aggregate-address' feature.
> > > I've search in documentation and source code, but found nothing about
> > > prefix aggregation. 
> > > 
> > bgpd does not support aggregation of addresses. After 4 years of bgpd your
> > the first to request this so don't expect that it changes soon.
> I don't think that I'm first person, who request such feature.
> 
> http://archive.openbsd.nu/?ml=openbsd-misc&a=2006-03&m=1883090
> 
> "* Falk Brockerhoff  [2006-03-29 12:38]:
> > I take a look on the documentation, searched the source-code for  
> > anything spelled like aggregate or something like this, but I wasn't  
> > lucky. The network-Statement isn't doing aggregating, is it?
> 
> njet. we don't have any aggregate code, and you're the first one ever 
> to ask :)"
> 

I'm sorry, you're the 2nd person to ask for aggregation in bgpd.
I still think that more important things need to be done first especially
since aggregation is considered evil.
E.g. being able to anounce prefixes depening on some state would be more
useful.

-- 
:wq Claudio