[113406] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BGP FlowSpec support on provider networks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Payne)
Fri Apr 10 18:41:40 2009
From: John Payne <john@sackheads.org>
To: "Fouant, Stefan" <Stefan.Fouant@neustar.biz>
In-Reply-To: <A37B35739826F847A1F20BAB3CAEEE1A05751DB3@STNTEXCH12.cis.neustar.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 18:38:31 -0400
Cc: "<nanog@nanog.org>" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Apr 10, 2009, at 4:27 PM, "Fouant, Stefan"
<Stefan.Fouant@neustar.biz> 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...
Can you name 3 major vendors who support it? I suspect more providers
would offer it if there was vendor support.
Last I checked, at least one vendor was fighting mad over the thought
of supporting it.
