[3556] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: T3 or not to T3
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dorian R. Kim)
Mon Jul 22 02:28:28 1996
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 02:22:06 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Dorian R. Kim" <dorian@cic.net>
To: Avi Freedman <freedman@netaxs.com>
cc: Dean Gaudet <dgaudet@hotwired.com>, sob@academ.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199607220542.BAA25364@netaxs.com>
On Mon, 22 Jul 1996, Avi Freedman wrote:
> I hear that Sprint, one of the few large providers (that imposes filters
> on customer BGP sessions) that still bases customer peering filters on
> as-path filters rather than on a per-session route filter list either
> manually constructed or built automagically from databases, is considering
> going or is going to go to route filtering its customer sessions rather
> than as-path filtering. Now, I'm talking here about the BGP sessions,
This makes sense is this the "Right Way" to do things, IMO. However, this
requires a significant degree of router configuration automation, and some
sort a reliable database to do in a large scale.
But then again, I'm sure Sprint has the resources to handle this type of a
challenge.
-dorian
