Patent ID: 8787175

Claim:
A method, comprising: accessing first and second modified versions of a proposed routing update provided by a route reflector, the route reflector to provide the first and second modified versions to a first provider edge router and to provide an unmodified version of the proposed routing update to a second provider edge router in response to determining that the proposed routing update represents an undesirable routing configuration for the first provider edge router, the proposed routing update being received at the route reflector and originated at a first customer edge router; forwarding the first modified version of the proposed routing update received from the route reflector from the first provider edge router to a second customer edge router, the first modified version of the proposed routing update including a first route target different from a second route target of the unmodified version of the proposed routing update; and forwarding the second modified version of the proposed routing update received from the route reflector from the first provider edge router to a third customer edge router, the second modified version of the proposed routing update including a third route target different from the second route target, the first modified version being different from the second modified version of the proposed routing update.