[144992] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BGP visibility for /24 End User Allocation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Seth Mattinen)
Fri Sep 23 14:35:37 2011
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 11:34:13 -0700
From: Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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On 9/23/11 11:29 AM, Eric Germann wrote:
> Long time on-again-off-again lurker.
>
> Looking to multihome in the most efficient mode.
>
> Our two upstreams are AS11530 (Embarq) and AS10796 (Time Warner). Diverse routed fiber from each at 10Mbps.
>
> Our traffic profile is highly asymmetric as a consumer of bandwidth (12-15Mbps average inbound aggregate, 2-3Mbps aggregate very bursty outbound).
>
> Years ago when I tinkered with BGP there were substantial issues with getting any prefix too small through filters to see the "greater Internet" (IIRC it was a /19 at that time).
>
> Given we really could justify a /24 realistically, what is the current status of filtering in terms of having that /24 get to the "vast majority" of the Internet given the two providers in question?
>
> Thanks for any advice in advance.
>
A /24 is has been the gold standard for a while, you shouldn't have any
problems.
~Seth
