[78904] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Tier-2 reachability and multihoming
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com)
Thu Mar 24 21:50:37 2005
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 02:49:57 +0000
From: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
To: Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net>
Cc: G Pavan Kumar <pavanji@cse.iitb.ac.in>,
Nanog Mailing list <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOC.4.61.0503241215430.3580@paixhost.pch.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 12:18:34PM -0800, Bill Woodcock wrote:
>
> On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, G Pavan Kumar wrote:
> > Actually, I am not doing what you think I am. I am using the RouteViews
> > aggregation of the BGP routing tables. RouteViews is a project at the
> > univ. of Oregon that peers with backbones.
>
> Really? Could you tell us more about it? I thought there was just one
> Internet backbone.
Bill... Stop it!!! shooting fish in a barrel is
no sport at all.
> > I am looking at almost full and fresh data.
>
> So what value do you assign to "almost full?" There's a difference
> between "best" and "complete," which you may not be entirely appreciating.
>
> -Bill
almost full == just after dessert
and as you (and almost every one else on this list) know,
there is zero chance of "complete" ... and "best" is always
in the eye/routing-table of the beholder.
--bill
