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Re: Max Prefix Out, was Re: Verizon 701 Route leak?


From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick () ianai net>
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2017 07:56:30 -0400

On Sep 1, 2017, at 5:26 AM, Randy Bush <randy () psg com> wrote:

i have 142 largish bgp customers, a large enough number that the number
of prefixes i receive from them varies annoyingly.  how do i reasonably
automate setting of my outbound prefix limit?

First, it seems you know the inbound so automating the outbound is simple arithmetic.

But even if that is unruly, setting the outbound to, say, 300K or so would keep you from spilling a full table. Not 
perfect, but better than nothing.

Orrrrrr, perhaps this feature is not for you?

-- 
TTFN,
patrick


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