Patent ID: 7602796

Claim:
A method of managing network routes at a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) host, the method comprising the computer-implemented steps of: the BGP host disallowing the performance of one or more actions that are associated with first one or more routes; wherein the first one or more routes are stored in a BGP Routing Information Base (RIB) that stores only routes received over BGP; the BGP host configuring two or more routing policies that are associated with the first one or more routes that are stored in the BGP RIB, wherein configuring the two or more routing policies comprises: applying a first routing policy of the two or more routing policies to the first one or more routes, wherein applying the first routing policy comprises modifying one or more attributes of a particular route of the first one or more routes based on whether one or more conditions associated with the first routing policy of the two or more routing policies are satisfied; storing second one or more routes at the BGP host, wherein the second one or more routes are the same as the first one or more routes; and applying a second routing policy of the two or more routing policies to the second one or more routes, wherein the second routing policy is different than the first routing policy; the BGP host allowing the performance of the one or more actions for the first one or more routes stored in the BGP RIB that have been configured according to one of the two or more routing policies.