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Route Advertisement

Route advertisement is the process by which routers distribute information about reachable IP prefixes or network paths via routing protocols, enabling path selection, traffic engineering, and policy enforcement in enterprise networks, data centers, cloud environments, and service provider interconnections.

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MCP

curl -X POST https://mcp.decisioninsights.ai/api/mcp-public \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -H "accept: application/json, text/event-stream" \
  -d '{"id":1,"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"tools/call","params":{"arguments":{"slug":"route-advertisement"},"name":"di_get_term"}}'

REST

GET https://api.decisioninsights.ai/api/public/v1/glossary/24b0deb9-6fe2-4933-8ec4-2c37ef0f6654

CLI

di get-glossary --slug route-advertisement

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It's a known term One entry, with its type (topic) name
It sits in a glossary Linked to Routing Protocol, Router, Route Reflector, Segment Routing inDefinedTermSet
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