[50409] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Understanding BGP misconfiguration
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (senthil ayyasamy)
Sat Jul 27 21:21:35 2002
Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 18:21:02 -0700 (PDT)
From: senthil ayyasamy <mplsgeek@yahoo.com>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.40.0207271838210.15171-100000@clifden.donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
--- Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com> wrote:
>
> A nice academic paper looking at the causes of BGP
> errors. They found
> configuration errors are pervasive, with 200-1200
> prefixes experienceing
> problems due to misconfigurations every day. But
> they also found the Net
> is relatively robust, with only one in twenty-five
> misconfigurations
> affect connectivity.
>
>
http://www.acm.org/sigcomm/sigcomm2002/papers/bgpmisconfig.html
>
Another important conclusion of the paper is: Not all
misconfigurations are due to manual errors.
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