Method and apparatus for border gateway protocol route management and routing policy modeling

摘要

A method and apparatus is described for Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) route management and routing policy modeling. In one aspect, the performance of one or more actions associated with one or more routes is disallowed. One or more routing policies associated with the one or more routes are configured. The performance of the one or more actions is then allowed. In one feature of the aspect, the one or more actions comprise forwarding packets on the one or more routes. The one or more actions may also comprise advertising the one or more routes to BGP peers.