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Re: Clue's for Clue-less

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Irving)
Mon Oct 26 17:45:13 1998

Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 17:31:40 -0500
From: Richard Irving <rirving@onecall.net>
Reply-To: rirving@onecall.net
To: "Martin, Christian" <CMartin@mercury.balink.com>, nanog@merit.edu

somewhat unilaterally denying prefixes without verification of the
> validity of their origin...Hmm, lets see...AS 1 sending the 4.0.0.0
> netblock across a direct peering point, but it get's nicked because of
> max-prefix, so it comes across through a multihomed downstream and all
> of a sudden, sorry little multihomed downstream is carrying 200 Megs of
> BBN transit.  Oops!
> 

 So, why would a multi-homed *downstream* be sending you 
 *upstream* routes .... Hrrrmmmmm ?


  ;)

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