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RE: The Cidr Report
From: Mike Leber <mleber () he net>
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 12:40:57 -0800 (PST)
On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:
On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, Frotzler, Florian wrote:Recent Table History Date Prefixes CIDR Agg 04-02-05 151613 103143 05-02-05 152142 103736 06-02-05 152231 103721 07-02-05 152353 103830 08-02-05 152514 103966 09-02-05 153855 104090 10-02-05 154283 104246 11-02-05 154341 104240<...> ~ +3000 routes in one week? Anyone else frightened by this? Florianany thoughts on how to fix it? my peers keep sending these to me and i'll even admit my customers do too. telling people its bad doesnt appear to have an effect, at the small end networks seem to collect /24s and announce them freely, at the large end i'm still without an explanation as to why large networks require so many prefixes - none of them seem to comment? if people arent self policing it seems the only other way is for the larger transit providers to stop accepting prefixes and telling their customers to fix their s**t. and i dont see them doing this.
It seems to me they get paid to carry prefixes by their customers. And their peers listen to the prefixes because they make money by using those prefixes. So, to the extent you make money listening to them, use the routes. And if they start to cause you problems you will have to take corrective action to stablize your network, as was done a long time ago (internet time): http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/1995-09/msg00047.html (link grabbed at random from the archives, I'm sure there are better posts that actually list the full old school sprint filters.) However, if you are the one filtering and all your competitors figure out how to handle 154,000 routes then you will be at a competitive disadvantage. Coincidentally, the largest networks also spend the most with their vendors and get to tell the vendors what they want in the next generation of boxes they buy. Mike. +----------------- H U R R I C A N E - E L E C T R I C -----------------+ | Mike Leber Direct Internet Connections Voice 510 580 4100 | | Hurricane Electric Web Hosting Colocation Fax 510 580 4151 | | mleber () he net http://www.he.net | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
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- RE: The Cidr Report Frotzler, Florian (Feb 11)
- RE: The Cidr Report Neil J. McRae (Feb 11)
- RE: The Cidr Report Jon Lewis (Feb 11)
- RE: The Cidr Report Stephen J. Wilcox (Feb 11)
- RE: The Cidr Report Neil J. McRae (Feb 11)
- RE: The Cidr Report Mike Leber (Feb 11)
- RE: The Cidr Report Stephen J. Wilcox (Feb 11)
- RE: The Cidr Report Neil J. McRae (Feb 12)
- Re: The Cidr Report Philip Smith (Feb 12)
- Re: The Cidr Report Stephen J. Wilcox (Feb 12)
- Re: The Cidr Report Jon Lewis (Feb 12)
- Re: The Cidr Report Hank Nussbacher (Feb 12)
- Re: The Cidr Report Alexander Koch (Feb 12)
- Re: The Cidr Report Fredy Kuenzler (Feb 12)
- Re: The Cidr Report Vinny Abello (Feb 12)
- RE: The Cidr Report Neil J. McRae (Feb 11)
- Re: The Cidr Report Christopher L. Morrow (Feb 12)