From: "Töma Gavrichenkov" <ximaera@gmail.com>
To: "Dimeji Fayomi" <oof1@students.waikato.ac.nz>
Cc: "NANOG" <nanog@nanog.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2019 8:30:37 AM
Subject: Re: Performance metrics used in commercial BGP route optimizers
To: "Dimeji Fayomi" <oof1@students.waikato.ac.nz>
Cc: "NANOG" <nanog@nanog.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2019 8:30:37 AM
Subject: Re: Performance metrics used in commercial BGP route optimizers
On Tue, Jul 16, 2019, 4:11 PM Dimeji Fayomi <oof1@students.waikato.ac.nz> wrote:
I'm doing a research on BGP route optimisation and the performance metrics used by commercial route optimizer appliances to select better path to a prefix.
You may have discovered that already during your research, but just in case: basically, using those optimizers at full throttle is a bad practice and is generally discouraged.
A research into the deep-juju of BGP optimization is roughly equivalent to a research about how alcohol may make you a faster driver. I.e. it's fine in academy but you certainly may want to emphasize security considerations in your paper.
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Töma