[99231] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Route table growth and hardware limits...talk to the filter
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sam Stickland)
Tue Sep 11 10:56:02 2007
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 15:54:39 +0100
From: Sam Stickland <sam_mailinglists@spacething.org>
To: Forrest <forrest@almighty.c64.org>
CC: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0709081644360.14686-100000@almightyc64-mail2.dyndns.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Forrest wrote:
>
> Maybe this is a dumb question, but why isn't there a BGP option to just
> filter more specific routes that have the same AS path as the larger
> aggregate? This would allow the networks that announce more specifics for
> traffic engineering to still accomplish that, while throwing away the
> garbage from someone else that decides to announce their /19 as 33 routes
> for no apparent reason. Sure, this would fail if a network decided to
> only announce /24's for example without a larger aggregate, but how many
> networks are really doing that?
>
> Forrest
>
There's a couple of feature requests open at Cisco that would do this.
Rodney Dunn (at Cisco) pushed quite hard for these but couldn't get any
traction. As he's previously pointed out it would have if people would
vote for them (attach a case to).
FORWARDED MESSAGE:
Rodney Dunn wrote:
Take your pick. :)
CSCsa45474 Ability to block overlapping BGP prefixes from being installed in RIB
or better:
CSCsa46049 IOS RIB should not install overlapping routes with same next hop
Rodney
On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 05:26:51PM +0200, Gert Doering wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 11:09:16AM -0400, Rodney Dunn wrote:
>
>> > > I could never get them to agree to do it before and I have no reason
>> > > to believe anything has changed.
>>
> >
> > Is there a CSC number that one could attach cases to?
> >
> > gert
> > --
> > USENET is *not* the non-clickable part of WWW!
> > //www.muc.de/~gert/
> > Gert Doering - Munich, Germany gert@greenie.muc.de
> > fax: +49-89-35655025 gert@net.informatik.tu-muenchen.de
>
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