[93452] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: "Neighbor maximum-prefix" option on routers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alexander Koch)
Mon Nov 20 02:51:44 2006
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 08:50:36 +0100
From: Alexander Koch <efraim@clues.de>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <45610578.5080600@west.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Sun, 19 November 2006 17:31:36 -0800, Jay Hennigan wrote:
[max-prefix]
> We use it facing customers, typically set to about double the number of
> prefixes that we expect to see from them, configured to restart in 10
> minutes. This is a sanity check should they try to send us a full table
> or similar broken behavior. Route-maps and filter-lists are in place as
> well.
ehm, when you have filter lists, why max-prefix? do you
really use filters, if so what kind of? i would be really
curious to know what other ISPs do.
the more 'content' an ISP is the more crazy the announcements
get unfortunately, which is a shame. how do you filter that?
/18 le 24 and just let go?
Alexander
