[84273] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 12/8 problems?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert E.Seastrom)
Fri Sep 9 14:10:56 2005
To: "Israel, David B." <david.b.israel@xo.com>
Cc: "Richard A Steenbergen" <ras@e-gerbil.net>,
"Drew Linsalata" <drew@gothambus.com>, <nanog@nanog.org>,
rs@seastrom.com
From: Robert E.Seastrom <rs@seastrom.com>
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 14:07:13 -0400
In-Reply-To: <7DDC778ACD46A94B8269131AD5872C754C1541@TXPLANMAIL01.mail.inthosts.net> (David
B. Israel's message of "Fri, 9 Sep 2005 11:09:26 -0500")
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
"Israel, David B." <david.b.israel@xo.com> writes:
> Actually, my practical solution to this one is max-prefixing your peers.
> It means you have to watch your peers slow growth, but frankly, you
> should be watching that anyway.
Max-prefix is part of the battle.
A corollary "max-aggregate" where for instance one could say "shut the
connection down if these guys try to announce more than a /14 worth of
space total to me - I don't believe it" would be convenient.
None of this works of course if people don't turn it on though.
---rob