[50108] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: What is a reasonable range for global BGP table size?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Abley)
Thu Jul 18 17:50:07 2002
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 17:49:28 -0400
Cc: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.Nether.net>,
Kris Foster <Kris.Foster@telus.com>, nanog@merit.edu
To: Marshall Eubanks <tme@multicasttech.com>
From: Joe Abley <jabley@automagic.org>
In-Reply-To: <3D37325C.8020104@multicasttech.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Thursday, July 18, 2002, at 05:25 , Marshall Eubanks wrote:
> I still don't see where the excess 20K routes come from. Could these be
> internal routes from an iBGP ?
The export policy of contributors to route-views collectors is not
well-defined. While some participants might be sending a customer or
peer view, others are quite likely including all kinds of deaggregated
bloat which only has intra-AS application, and that would never normally
be seen by a peer AS.
Joe
