The Route Distinguishers should not be used to control distribution.

Found by and fix tested by Rimi Philippe

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/usr.sbin/bgpd/bgpd.conf.5 b/usr.sbin/bgpd/bgpd.conf.5
index c3454ccd18c..a28515c04fa 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/bgpd/bgpd.conf.5
+++ b/usr.sbin/bgpd/bgpd.conf.5
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: bgpd.conf.5,v 1.116 2011/09/17 16:29:44 claudio Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: bgpd.conf.5,v 1.117 2012/04/07 17:25:51 claudio Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 2004 Claudio Jeker <claudio@openbsd.org>
 .\" Copyright (c) 2003, 2004 Henning Brauer <henning@openbsd.org>
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 .\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF
 .\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
 .\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: September 17 2011 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: April 7 2012 $
 .Dt BGPD.CONF 5
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -494,13 +494,13 @@ for further information about the arguments.
 .Pp
 .It Ic rd Ar as-number Ns Li : Ns Ar local
 .It Ic rd Ar IP Ns Li : Ns Ar local
-The Route Distinguishers uniquely identifies a set of VPN prefixes.
-Only prefixes matching the
+The sole purpose of the Route Distinguisher
 .Ic rd
-will be imported into the routing domain.
-The purpose of the
+is to ensure that possible common prefixes are destinct between VPNs.
+The
 .Ic rd
-is solely to allow one to create distinct routes to a common address prefix.
+is neither used to identify the origin of the prefix nor to control into
+which VPNs the prefix is distributed to.
 The
 .Ar as-number
 or