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Re: BGP Growth projections

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Sun Jul 12 17:43:54 2009

Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 17:42:53 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org>
To: Arie Vayner <arievayner@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20b13c6b0907120309k7accd61ye2d256fcb87d64b1@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog list <nanog@merit.edu>
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On Sun, 12 Jul 2009, Arie Vayner wrote:

> I would second Ivan's comment.
> Unless you are a major transit operator (which beats the "small ISP"
> requirement), you don't really need a full view, and can do we a limited
> view with a default route.

Until something breaks or the next big depeering chicken fight which 
causes you to lose reachability to some portion of the net.

As Randy might say, I encourage my competitors to design their network 
that way.

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