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Re: Customer AS

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex.Bligh)
Mon Aug 19 18:50:55 1996

To: curtis@ans.net
cc: "Alex.Bligh" <amb@xara.net>, Sean Doran <smd@chops.icp.net>,
        Paul Ferguson <pferguso@cisco.com>,
        "Chris MacFarland" <chris@computek.net>,
        "Tim Crowell" <tcrowell@gte.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 19 Aug 1996 18:13:23 EDT."
             <199608192213.SAA12001@brookfield.ans.net> 
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 23:29:35 +0100
From: "Alex.Bligh" <amb@xara.net>

Curtis,
> 
> The mistakes that I was referring to is the more specifics that *are*
> in the IRR and are announced even though there is no good reason to
> announce them.  If I look throught the routes we accept, there are
> quite a few long lists of contiguous /24s with identical ASpaths.
> Some of them have aggregates but perhaps the aggregator hasn't
> discovered "summary-only".

Ah. So this was the automation Sean was referring to - not
accepting more specifics of routes with identical AS paths.

telehouse1#conf t
Enter configuration commands, one per line.  End with CNTL/Z.
telehouse1(config)#router bgp 5413
telehouse1(config-router)# neighbor x.x.x.x filter-list 199 in summary-only

... Pipedream? I think it would actually be implementatable. I see
Paul F has managed to get himself on the CC list :-)

Alex Bligh
Xara Networks




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