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Re: Bit-dumping [Was: Re: Peering Policy]

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Avi Freedman)
Wed Oct 30 11:54:18 1996

From: Avi Freedman <freedman@netaxs.com>
To: pferguso@cisco.com (Paul Ferguson)
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 11:50:42 -0500 (EST)
Cc: pritish@iocenter.net, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19961030163539.006a0954@lint.cisco.com> from "Paul Ferguson" at Oct 30, 96 11:35:39 am

> Apparently people are still missing the point. On a shared media
> exchange, there is nothing to preclude another entity from pointing
> default to you even if they are *not* peering with you [a.k.a. bit-dumping].
> 
> - paul

Sure there is.  Write a perl script to monitor such things.  It takes about
30 minutes - plus another 30 minutes if you want to spiff it up and document
it.  This assumes you've used a perl-expect type thing before.

Avi


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