[46848] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: genuity - any good?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Simon Lyall)
Fri Apr 12 18:09:34 2002
Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 10:09:02 +1200 (NZST)
From: Simon Lyall <simon.lyall@ihug.co.nz>
To: "nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
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On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Roy wrote:
> 1) Their BGP polices are not as good as others. They force you to register
> each route you want to advertise rather than allowing you to advertise any
> reasonable route for your prefixes.
One of our upstreams wanted this so we just ended up sending them every
legit network/prefix combo for our main networks (2 * /17) . They end up
with over 500 entries in their database and any one time we are only
advertising about 20 of them.
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