[101656] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BGP Filtering
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jared Mauch)
Tue Jan 15 11:24:58 2008
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 11:18:38 -0500
From: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
To: Ben Butler <ben.butler@c2internet.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <F9181128E9584B40B5A04C43800604B406DCD6@anyanka.c2internet.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 04:11:36PM -0000, Ben Butler wrote:
> As a transit consumer - why would I want to carry all this cr*p in my
> routing table, I would still be getting a BGP route to the larger prefix
> anyway - let my transit feeds sort out which route they use & traffic
> engineering.
Well, you could always just take "Customer" routes from
each of your providers (since you're running BGP I presume
you're actually multihomed and not adding to the pollution)
and point default at one/both providers for the other networks
(or take default from one or both of them).
- jared
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