[14580] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Things to do to make the network better
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Wed Jan 7 22:37:14 1998
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 22:28:20 -0500 (EST)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net>
To: Morten Reistad <mrr@norway.eu.net>
cc: Tom Killalea <tomk@nwnet.net>, perry@piermont.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199801070940.KAA17358@kirov.eunet.no>
On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Morten Reistad wrote:
> I am network manager for a pretty much medium-sized ISP, with around
> 1700 internal network blocks; 600 of which come from dynamic sources.
> (RADIUS; variuos routing protocols). Given that a stock router will
> run out of filter lists long before the 600 mark I see major scaling
> problems here. (Outside of our network we show around 30 BGP network
You need to do this as close to the edge as possible. Do you have routers
with 600 customer links directly connected? If you did, then it might
only be feasible to require that your customers filter their traffic such
that they cannot send bogus source traffic to you...and have stiff
penalties in their service contracts for failure to maintain such filters.
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