[113411] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BGP FlowSpec support on provider networks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Morrow)
Sat Apr 11 00:56:35 2009
In-Reply-To: <47BEB524-51BC-4B4D-A7FB-4EFFA7CF633E@sackheads.org>
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 00:54:05 -0400
From: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
To: John Payne <john@sackheads.org>
Cc: "<nanog@nanog.org>" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 6:38 PM, John Payne <john@sackheads.org> wrote:
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>
> On Apr 10, 2009, at 4:27 PM, "Fouant, Stefan" <Stefan.Fouant@neustar.biz>
> wrote:
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>> 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. =A0The few provider=
s
>> 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. =A0I'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? =A0I suspect more providers =
would
juniper... and when they dropped the IPR stuff other vendors basically
walked away :(
> offer it if there was vendor support.
> Last I checked, at least one vendor was fighting mad over the thought of
> supporting it.
yes :( weee! poilitics!
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