Patch to fix BGP ghost routes resulting from loops

[Ondrej Zajicek]

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 01:54:33PM +0100, Ivo Smits wrote:
> I've created attached patches to prevent BGP route loops from turning  
> into ghosts (issue reported earlier to the mailing list:  
> http://marc.info/?l=bird-users&m=129433651229774&w=2).
>
> Instead of completely ignoring received BGP routes containing the  
> router's own AS number, it should now handle them as if the prefixes are  
> unreachable.
>
> We have tested the patch against git and it fixed the issue there. I've  
> also made an (untested) patch against bird 1.2.5.

Thanks for the patch. I already have semifinished patch that did some
bigger changes to BGP error handling code and also fixes this problem,
so i would not merge that, but it might be useful for others.

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