[107708] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: an effect of ignoring BCP38
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin Oberman)
Thu Sep 11 16:41:37 2008
To: Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:24:43 PDT."
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Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 13:41:28 -0700
From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
X-To: Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi>
Cc: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com, nanog@merit.edu, k claffy <kc@caida.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
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> Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:24:43 -0700
> From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
>
> > Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 20:59:39 +0300 (EEST)
> > From: Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi>
> >
> > On Thu, 11 Sep 2008, Jo Rhett wrote:
> > > On Sep 11, 2008, at 10:10 AM, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> > >> By the time you walk our list of upstreams to any of the '5 biggest
> > >> anything', you've gotten to places where our multihomed status
> > >> means you can't filter our source address very easily (or more
> > >> properly, where you can't filter multihomed sources in general).
> > >
> > > I don't agree with this statement. I hear this a lot, and it's not really
> > > true. Being multihomed doesn't mean that your source addresses are likely to
> > > be random. (or would be valid if they were)
> > >
> > > A significant portion of our customers, and *all* of the biggest paying ones,
> > > are multihomed. And they might have a lot of different ranges, but we know
> > > what the ranges are and filter on those.
> >
> > If you can manage ACLs for these customers, that's fine. But maybe
> > your multihomed customers and '5 biggest anything' customers are
> > different. Maybe your multihomed customer has 5 prefixes. The big
> > ones could have 5000. That's a pretty big ACL to manage.
>
> It's big, but not un-workable. Just looking at our lists, the longest is
> over 212K entries and we have 5 over 5K and 20 over 1K. We would have
> even bigger ones if the IRR had more complete information.
Ack! Fat fingered it!
Certainly not 212K entries. That was supposed to be 12K. Not nearly so
impressive.
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R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
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