On 2009-07-12-06:09:12, Arie Vayner <arievayner@gmail.com> wrote:
Unless you are a major transit operator (which beats the "small ISP" requirement), you don't really need a full view, and can do we a limited view with a default route.
Disagree. Protection against big-provider depeerings, interdomain capacity problems, etc is increasingly relevant to smaller sites interested in getting business done. While some will outsource this protection their (non-transit-free) provider, others enjoy maintaining this granularity of control themselves...
Specifically, with full routes, us "small ISP" people can match ASNs with traffic in Netflow to see where our traffic goes/comes from, and thus do capacity/link/peer/transit/traffic planning and problem mitigation. -- Scanned for viruses and dangerous content at http://www.oneunified.net and is believed to be clean.