The number of instances of the local AS identifier that may be contained in the route's AS-Path without rejecting the route. The AS-Path attribute of a BGP route contains the identifiers of the Autonomous Systems traversed by the route. When a route is received with an AS-Path containing the local AS identifier, it normally indicates a routing loop, and the default behavior is to reject the route. This object allows this behavior to be over-ridden. This is useful, for example, for VPN routes, where routes from one CE router are advertised to other CE routers sites through a provider's BGP network. Two CE routers in the same AS can enable this feature to prevent routes from the other CE from being discarded. Changing the value of this object triggers BGP to refresh its routes from each active peer in the peer group.