Re: Modelling a large ISP network with C-BGP

[Gregory Hicks <ghicks () cadence com>]

> Cc: nanog () nanog org
> From: Christian Kuhtz <kuhtzch () corp earthlink net>
> Subject: Re: Modelling a large ISP network with C-BGP
> Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 17:19:50 -0500
> To: Gregory Hicks <ghicks>
>
>
> On Feb 2, 2006, at 5:02 PM, Gregory Hicks wrote:
>
> > > From: Christian Kuhtz <kuhtzch () corp earthlink net>
> > > Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 15:38:57 -0500
> > >
> > > On Feb 2, 2006, at 3:34 PM, Alain Hebert wrote:
> > > > I fail to see a usage for smaller ISP that are using BGP only
> > > > for peering and OSPF internaly.
> > >
> > > Why would you need to sim this at small scale?
> >
> > How about for a net that has 540+ networks?  It would be  
> > interesting to see what happens if you perturb this BEFORE you do
> > the perturbation...
>
> *sigh*
>
> You just made me speechless.  All I can come with is "Well, DUH!"

Christian:

Honestly, I didn't *mean* to make you speechless!  It just happened...

What I *meant* to write was

... 540+ SUBnets.  We have several /16 addresses and some 35K hosts right now - but 
still growing...  All this is hiding behind one AS...  (used to be three ASes)
> *sigh*

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