[113405] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BGP FlowSpec support on provider networks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Charles Wyble)
Fri Apr 10 16:50:59 2009
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 13:35:12 -0700
From: Charles Wyble <charles@thewybles.com>
To: "Fouant, Stefan" <Stefan.Fouant@neustar.biz>
In-Reply-To: <A37B35739826F847A1F20BAB3CAEEE1A05751DA1@STNTEXCH12.cis.neustar.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Fouant, Stefan wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I am trying to compile data on which providers are currently supporting
> BGP Flowspec at their edge, if there are any at all. The few providers
> I've reached out to have indicated they do not support this and have no
> intention of supporting this any time in the near future. I'm also
> curious why something so useful as to have the ability to advertise flow
> specification information in NLRI and distribute filtering information
> is taking so long to gain a foothold in the industry...
See ipv6 :)