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Re: BGP Path Filtering

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leo Bicknell)
Fri May 16 20:07:57 2003

Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 20:07:31 -0400
From: Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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In a message written on Fri, May 16, 2003 at 08:00:00PM -0400, Sean Donelan=
 wrote:
> Large ISPS (more than 500 eBGP neighbors and 5000 prefixes) are going to

MFN / AboveNet qualifies as a "large ISP" by your definition, yet:

> sufficient). ANS was the only major commercial provider I knew which
> explicitly configured BGP announcement filters for every network prefix
> from every source.  According to studies, about 70% of large ISPs

We prefix-list filter all of our customers.  We have from time to
time made an exception due to route limits, or people limits, but
we still exceed 99% of our customers are fully prefix-list filtered
on all inbound announcements.  It's not that hard.

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