How many legitimate cases when Origin AS in BGP announcement changed by another AS?

[Akmal Shahbaz <akmal_shahbaz () yahoo com>]

Hi

I am looking for example routing policies when any AS receiving BGP advertisement changes Origin AS in BGP AS set 
attribute to remove the received AS number and puts its own AS number.[legitimate cases]

1. customer AS advertises the prefix however provider AS announce the aggregate(super prefix) shall put it's AS number 
in the BGP announcement.It may or may not suppress the customer BGP announcement based on multihoming.Well, we may say 
this is not a change in origin AS but new BGP announcement.

2.Can it happen in the case of private/public peering ?

3.ASes managed by same organization?

4.Are there cases it can be done for sub prefix or exact prefix announcement forwarding? 


Thank you.

Akmal
PhD Student
MMLAB,SNU,Korea


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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2011 09:00:27 +0300
From: Tarig Ahmed <tariq198487 () hotmail com>
Subject: Re: Router only speaks IGP in BGP network
To: Jeff Aitken <jaitken () aitken com>
Cc: nanog () nanog org
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On Jan 3, 2011, at 8:02 PM, Jeff Aitken <jaitken () aitken com> wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 08:52:42AM -0500, ML wrote:
> > If you're only redistributing 10 prefixes into OSPF? Problem?
>
> I know I'm a little late to this thread, but figured I'd point out one
> reason why this can be very dangerous:
>
> In IOS, you use a route-map to control redistribution between  
> protocols.
> For example, if you want to redist just those BGP prefixes tagged  
> with a
> specific community into OSPF, you will probably configure something  
> that
> looks like this:
>
>     route-map bgp-to-ospf permit 10
>      match community $COMMUNITY
>     !
>     route-map bgp-to-ospf deny 20
>     !
>     router ospf $PID
>      redistribute bgp $ASN subnets route-map bgp-to-ospf
>
>
> Now, consider the following failure scenarios:
>
> 1. Someone typo's a BGP config elsewhere in your network and attaches
> $COMMUNITY to a whole bunch more routes... say, all 350k being sent  
> by your
> upstream provider.  *oops*
>
> 2. An engineer thinks that there's something wrong with the  
> redistribution
> and decides to temporarily disable it as part of the troubleshooting
> process.  He types the following:
>
>     conf t
>     router ospf $PID
>     no redistribute bgp $ASN subnets route-map bgp-to-ospf
>
> *boom*
>
> He just dumped all BGP routes into OSPF, due to the way IOS parses the
> command: it removes the route-map but leaves the redistribution  
> intact.
> To be fair, Cisco does provide you with tools to mitigate this risk  
> (see
> the "redistribute maximum-prefix" command) but the point is that  
> this is
> a fairly easy mistake to make.
>
> At the end of the day, the reason that many folks advise against the
> redistribution of BGP into an IGP is that it sets the stage for a  
> seemingly
> insignificant mistake to cause a not-so-insignificant outage.
>
>
> --Jeff

This is an interesting point.
But why cisco *no* command does not remove the redistribute , I think  
it should do.

Thanks



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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 23:04:14 -0800 (PST)
From: jacob miller <mmzinyi () yahoo com>
Subject: Software For Telcos
To: nanog () nanog org
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Hi,

I have been wondering what type of Software do top telcos use.

The tracking of Customer circuits to ensure that from marketing,sales,accounts and technical department everything to 
do with the circuits has to be tracked.

Anyone with any help in regards to top software that can be used to run such a telco to ensure that world class service 
is obtained will be crucial.

Regards,
Jacob





      



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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2011 12:29:48 +0100
From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch () muada com>
Subject: 2010 IPv4 (and IPv6) Address Use Report
To: NANOG list <nanog () nanog org>
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[ (Non-cross)posted to NANOG, PPML, RIPE IPv6 wg, Dutch IPv6 TF. ]

On the web:

IPv4: http://www.bgpexpert.com/addrspace2010.php
IPv6: http://www.bgpexpert.com/addrspace-ipv6-2010.php

The IPv4 one is included below:


2010 IPv4 Address Use Report

As of January 1, 2011, the number of unused IPv4 addresses is 495.66 million. Exactly a year earlier, the number of 
available addresses was 721.06 million. So we collectively used up 225.4 million addresses in 2010.

35 of the 256 the /8s that make up the IPv4 address space have the status "reserved". 0 and 127 have special meaning 
and can't be used for normal purposes. 224 - 239 are used for multicast and 240 - 255 are "reserved for future use". 
With only about two years worth of IPv4 addresses remaining on the shelves, it would seem that that future is here now, 
but unfortunately, pretty much all operating systems balk at using a "reserved" address. So unreserving those addresses 
means upgrading EVERY system connected to the Internet. If we're going to do that, we may as well skip those reserved 
IPv4 addresses and upgrade to IPv6. Last but not least, there's block 10, which is the largest of the three address 
blocks set aside for private use. The others, 172.16.0.0/12 and 192.168.0.0/16, don't show up as reserved, but are 
obviously not available for regular use.

This makes the total number of usable IPv4 addresses is (256 - 35) * 2^24 - 2^20 - 2^16 = 3706.65 million addresses. 
The "IANA global pool" consists of 7 /8s (117.44 million) are still unused (unallocated): 39/8, 102/8, 103/8, 104/8, 
106/8, 179/8 and 185/8. But there's also a lot of unused space hiding in the "allocated" and "legacy" categories. Each 
RIR publishes a list of address blocks further delegated to ISPs or end users every day on their FTP servers. If we add 
up all those blocks, this comes out to 3210.99 million addresses. So the total number of usable-but-unused IPv4 
addresses is 3706.65 - 3210.99 = 495.66 million.

Going back to the IANA global pool, these are the changes over the past year:

Delegated    Blocks  +/- 2010
to/status

AfriNIC           3     +1
APNIC            42     +8
ARIN             35     +4
LACNIC            8     +2
RIPE NCC         34     +4
LEGACY           92
UNALLOCATED       7    -19

There is an agreement between IANA and the RIRs that each RIR will get one of the last five /8s. APNIC has been getting 
two /8s every three months like clockwork in 2010. If this continues, they'll be getting numbers 7 and 6 later this 
month, and then the final distribution will look like this:

Delegated    Blocks  +/- 2010
to/status

AfriNIC           4
APNIC            45
ARIN             36
LACNIC            9
RIPE NCC         35
LEGACY           92
UNALLOCATED       -

At this point, it becomes very interesting what the status of the legacy space is, exactly. The legacy blocks are each 
"administered" by one of the RIRs, but does that mean that that RIR is free to further delegate that space to ISPs and 
end users? There are 146.92 million unused addresses in legacy space, including 16.65 million returned by Interop a few 
months ago. This is the used versus unused address space administered by each RIR:

                    Legacy          Allocated
                 total   unused     total   unused
AfriNIC           33.55    24.85     50.33    27.06
APNIC            100.66    22.32    704.64    44.38
ARIN             654.31    60.55    587.20    56.21
LACNIC              -        -      134.22    37.39
RIPE NCC          67.11     5.77    570.43    67.38
IANA             671.09    16.65       -        -

AfriNIC used up 8.95 million addresses last year. So their current unused allocated space is good for another three 
years (if nothing changes) and their final /8 is worth another almost two years. If they get to use their legacy space, 
that buys them another 2.5 years. So unless IPv4 address use <em>really</em> takes off in Africa, AfriNIC will be 
handing out addresses for at least three or four years.

APNIC is at the opposite end of the spectrum, using up no less than 126.22 million new IPv4 addresses last year. Even 
if they get to use the legacy space they administer on top of three of the last seven /8s and, it's hard to see how 
APNIC can avoid having to tell people "no" before the year is out. However, there is a caveat: in the 2010 APNIC 
records, there is 6.65 million addresses worth of space that isn't in the 2011 records. Part of this is address space 
returned to APNIC. In other cases, an address block delegated in a previous year expands or shrinks retroactively. 
Depending on what the underlying reason for these changes is, the actual rate at which APNIC and the other RIRs are 
giving out address space may be different from what it seems to be at first glance.

ARIN, LACNIC, and the RIPE NCC used up 54.55, 17.29, and 75.45 million addresses, respectively, in 2010. However, ARIN 
saw 27.24 million addresses returned, including the 16.65 million from Interop, which is administered in the ARIN 
records even though the IANA list doesn't reflect this. For AfriNIC, LACNIC and the RIPE NCC the numbers of addresses 
that came back were 0.31, 0.22, and 22.62 million, respectively.

With respect to running out of addresses, it's important to realize that the Pareto principle (the 80/20 rule) applies: 
out of the 7686 address blocks given out last year, only 392 (5 percent) were blocks larger than 100,000 addresses, but 
those were responsible for 82 percent of the address <em>space</em> given out. Even when the RIRs are no longer able to 
give out those large blocks, they may still be able to fulfill the requests for address blocks smaller than 10,000 
addresses. Last year, 6425 such blocks were given out, totaling 14.03 million addresses. It really only takes a single 
address to be in the content business; it's the ISPs that need a continuous supply of new addresses to connect new 
customers. So the address shortages looming beyond the summer will hit ISPs and their broadband/mobile customers first 
and foremost, and the content industry to a much lesser degree.

The top 15 IPv4 address holding countries:

                2011-01-01   2010-01-01    Increase  Country

1     -     US    1519.53 M    1495.13 M       1.6%   United States
2     -     CN     277.64 M     232.45 M      19.4%   China
3     -     JP     186.82 M     177.15 M       5.5%   Japan
4     -     EU     151.80 M     149.48 M       1.6%   Multi-country in Europe
5    (6)    KR     103.50 M      77.77 M      33.1%   Korea
6    (5)    DE      91.61 M      86.51 M       5.9%   Germany
7    (9)    GB      82.25 M      74.18 M      10.9%   United Kingdom
8     -     CA      79.53 M      76.96 M       3.3%   Canada
9     -     FR      79.29 M      75.54 M       5.0%   France      
10    -     AU      49.10 M      39.77 M      23.5%   Australia
11    -     BR      40.24 M      33.95 M      18.5%   Brazil
12    -     IT      37.14 M      33.50 M      10.9%   Italy
13    -     RU      34.66 M      28.47 M      21.7%   Russia
14    -     TW      31.93 M      27.10 M      17.8%   Taiwan
15   (19)   IN      28.70 M      19.42 M      47.8%   India

Because the US holds so much space, the increase of 25 million addresses seems small, but that's still more than 10% of 
the address space given out in 2010. China's growth is slowing down a little at 45 million addresses last year compared 
to 50 million in 2009. But other countries in Asia are picking up the slack and then some: Korea keeps using up large 
amounts of address space, and India is now also picking up the pace. The US now has 47.3% of the address space in use, 
down from 50.1% a year ago. The other countries in the top 15 collectively hold 39.7%, up from 38%. That leaves 13% for 
the rest of the world, up from 12%.

Note that I slightly changed the way addresses are counted: previously, all the legacy blocks that didn't have an RIR 
listed were assumed to be used 100%. But with the return of most of the Interop block this is no longer the case: 
although ARIN isn't listed as administering the 45/8 block, they actually are and only have 45.0.0.0/15 listed as in 
use.


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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2011 09:34:53 -0200
From: "Takashi Tome" <takashi () cpqd com br>
Subject: RES: Software For Telcos
To: <nanog () nanog org>
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    <E723F40B750C0D47B43CDC67EFC3806E1CE4CE () MAILSRV4 aquarius cpqd com br>
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Hi Jacob,

Generally, top telcos use software made by top telco's software vendors... of course  :-)

Say in other words, top telco's equipment vendors have their own sw team or third-party suppliers. Equipment vendors 
are Alcatel, Lucent (ex-AT&T), Ericsson, Nokia, etc. You can see at those companies' web site to check.

Which kind of software:
- system and service management;
- CRM;
- switching, IMS, etc;
- billing;
and so on.

Hope it works.

Takashi Tome
takashi () cpqd com br
www.cpqd.com.br 


-----Mensagem original-----
De: jacob miller [mailto:mmzinyi () yahoo com] 
Enviada em: ter?a-feira, 4 de janeiro de 2011 05:04
Para: nanog () nanog org
Assunto: Software For Telcos


Hi,

I have been wondering what type of Software do top telcos use.

The tracking of Customer circuits to ensure that from marketing,sales,accounts and technical department everything to 
do with the circuits has to be tracked.

Anyone with any help in regards to top software that can be used to run such a telco to ensure that world class service 
is obtained will be crucial.

Regards,
Jacob





      




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