[32267] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [doable?] peer filtering (was Re: Trusting BGP sessions)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bora Akyol)
Wed Nov 15 17:48:35 2000
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From: "Bora Akyol" <akyol@akyol.org>
To: "Sean Donelan" <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 14:42:24 -0800
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Sean
If I understand you correctly, you want to filter inbound traffic from a
service provider to another based on what that service provider is
advertising and based on the decision process that we run.
How do you suggest we handle asymmetric routes?
Bora
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sean Donelan" <sean@donelan.com>
To: <heas@shrubbery.net>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2000 2:05 PM
Subject: Re: [doable?] peer filtering (was Re: Trusting BGP sessions)
>
> On Wed, 15 November 2000, john heasley wrote:
> >
> > great, that must be why these problems dont occur. which solution are
> > you using? i'm not flinging s*!@ over the fence; i'm truely interested.
>
>
> If the problem is truely no router vendor make a router capable of
> holding a fully filtered route table we need to tell the router vendors
> this is a mandatory requirement or we won't buy their routers. Remember,
> once upon a time when no router could handle more than 30,000 routes or
> 64,000 routes. Once the router vendors were told what was needed, they
> built a box to meet that need.
>
> It is not a given that no router will never support filtering a full
> tier-1 ISP's route table. Its just no one has made it a requirement.
>
> Lets make it a requirement of the router vendors.
>
>
>
