Laziness? Deepak On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:
so why bother advertising all these unnecessary blocks increasing the bgp table size and increasing traffic when you can just add a default route to null0 as per previous email??
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Deepak Jain wrote:
You can configure the BGP feed to set next hop to an unused interface or null0 or (your hardware's efficient null spot). The idea of BGP feed, if I am not mistaken, is to allow dynamic configuration/reconfiguration as blocks are allocated to keep from having to revise hundreds of routers' filters.
In practice, I am not sure I'd feel comfortable with it, but surely many would use it.
Deepak Jain AiNET
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:
Only I drop my unallocated/private packets at my core routers, if you set up routes to ARIN/whoever then I would transmit out those packets and my transits would carry them for me if I dont connect directly..
extra traffic all round really. why not just let the core routers bin the rogue packets? (ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 null0)
Steve
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On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Roy wrote:
It would seem to me that ARIN and its counterparts should get together and provide a "blackhole" BGP feed (the NBL?) where all packets destined for unallocated, restricted, or private space go bye-bye.