On 2024-08-02 21:39, Jean-Francois Mezei wrote:
Following process, redacted portions of the XONA Partners report have been published.
I have some question on terminology: (pardon my newbieness, just wanting to be pedantic on terminology). "Rogers staff removed the Access Control List policy filter from the configuration of the distribution routers. This consequently resulted in a flood of IP routing information into the core network routers, which triggered the outage." The report mentions Rogers uses IS-IS as interior routing protocol buit i'll use the more generic OSPF bellow. Questions: 1- I had always heard of routers facing the Internet (and thus doing BGP) as "edge" or "border". Is the term "distribution router" common in the industry? 2- When a border/edge router receives some 980,000 route entries from the transit provider, aren't those packets addressed to the IP address of that edge router with port 179 and going to the router's internal BGP process instead of being routed? (report makes it look those packets were left to run wild and propagate onto the intranet due to lack of ACL). Would the rules that define which BGP routes are to be converted to OSPF and then propagated to OSPF peers on the intranet be called an "Access Control List"? If not, what would they be called? (routing policy filter?) (I have always though of ACL as a packet routing rule, not of route building one). Would it be fair to state that a large ISP network would use BGP to OSPF route propagation to load balance upload-heavy site? BGP1 advertises itself to OSPF-A B and C as the router to talk to for packets desined to upload-heavy site, while BGP2 does the same for internal routers OSPF-D E and F? (Just trying to understand the scope of route information that Rogers's BGP routers would want to send to the internal routing protocol. Thanks in advance for any precisions on the above. Just want to make sure I puch right when I make requests for disclosure of the redacted portions.