RE: Clue's for Clue-less

Richard Irving Wrote:

To "You Know Who You Are":

Since some of the filtering policies on the core *seem* to not benefit the Internet as a whole... (or is that Hole ? ;)

May I suggest one that does:

neighbor WWW.XXX.YYY.ZZZ maximum-prefix XXXXX

It has a way of dropping "clue-nots"..... When they demonstrate said title.....

Your clueful attention appreciated.

Signed,

One *URKED* Core Operator.

What if it has a way of dropping big blocks? From what I've seen n sniffer traces, it depends on how the routes are stored in the BGP table that determines how they are advertised. This may have the effect of sinking large, valid netblocks. Unless you've seen otherwise... -Chris