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&lt;By &quot;suppressing&quot; what does this mean.&gt;<br />
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Basically &quot;suppressing&quot; is &quot;not advertising&quot;. [determining what routes not to advertise]<br />
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Two methods are available in BGP to implement route aggregation. <br />
You can redistribute an aggregated route into BGP or you can use a form of conditional aggregation. <br />
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Basic route redistribution involves creating an aggregate route and then redistributing the routes into BGP. <br />
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*Conditional aggregation involves creating an aggregate route and then advertising or suppressing the advertising of certain routes on the basis of route maps, autonomous system set path (AS-SET) information, or summary information. 
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Basically "suppressing" is "not advertising". [determining what routes not to advertise]

Two methods are available in BGP to implement route aggregation.
You can redistribute an aggregated route into BGP or you can use a form of conditional aggregation.

Basic route redistribution involves creating an aggregate route and then redistributing the routes into BGP.

*Conditional aggregation involves creating an aggregate route and then advertising or suppressing the advertising of certain routes on the basis of route maps, autonomous system set path (AS-SET) information, or summary information.

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Can someone give me a very freeze dried explanation of this. &nbsp;Obviously it is used with the &quot;aggregate-address&quot;. &nbsp;By &quot;suppressing&quot; what does this mean. &nbsp;Explain it to me like I'm in sales or something :)
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Can someone give me a very freeze dried explanation of this.  Obviously it is used with the "aggregate-address".  By "suppressing" what does this mean.  Explain it to me like I'm in sales or something :)

Suppressing routes in BGP

A router is a networking device that forwards data packets between computer networks. Routers perform the "traffic directing" functions on the Internet. The most familiar type of routers are home and small office cable or DSL routers that simply pass data, such as web pages, email, IM, and videos between computers and the Internet. More sophisticated routers, such as enterprise routers, connect large business or ISP networks up to the powerful core routers that forward data at high speed along the optical fiber lines of the Internet backbone. Though routers are typically dedicated hardware devices, use of software-based routers has grown increasingly common.