[149352] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AS8300 - Swisscom hijacking.. Just what are you testing?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Wed Feb 1 20:51:21 2012
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:50:32 +0900
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAArzuoux-XaA9JGFdN5c8fyFhHrh1r1wcV4ghMEPgXvVCe89Nw@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> It is "brilliant" because you can kiss goodbye to multihoming if you
> have, say, a /24 that you want to hang off, say, L3 and cogent.
>
> You'd get the covering L3 /9 announcement is all, visible to swisscom ..
>
>> They do internal aggregation of common prefixes to keep their internal
>> tables small, see for instance this rather old preso:
>>
>> http://www.swinog.ch/meetings/swinog7/BGP_filtering-swinog.ppt
why should swisscom pay for your traffic engineering?
randy
