Re: do not filter your customers

[Peter Ehiwe <peterehiwe () gmail com>]

IOS-XR

On 2/23/12, Randy Bush <randy () psg com> wrote:
> > > and things when further downhill from there, when telstra also did not
> > > filter what they announced to their peers, and the peers went over
> > > prefix limits and dropped bgp.
> > Oh! so protections worked!
>
> imiho, prefix count is too big a hammer.
>
> it would have been better if optus had irr-based filters in place on
> peerings with telstra.  then they would not have dropped the sessions
> and their customers could still reach telstra customers.
>
> of course, if telstra did not publish accurately in an irr instance,
> not much optus could do.
>
> randy


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Warm Regards

Peter(CCIE 23782).