Re: Route table growth and hardware limits...talk to the filter

[Russ White <riw () cisco com>]

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> 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?

http://www3.ietf.org/proceedings/03nov/I-D/draft-grow-bounded-longest-match-00.txt

As a matter of fact.

:-)

Russ

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