31 Oct
1996
31 Oct
'96
3:46 a.m.
Do not carry a full routing table on your exchange point router. Only carry routes to your customers and to networks with which you peer at that particular exchange point.
If you are someone who is not going to be easilly able to detect this through traffic stats, the likelihood is you are near enough tier one that your routes + all your peer routes is very near a full routing table anyway. I prefer Avi F's (?) idea pinging thru ach router on the fabric occasionally using a dest address which is not in the routing table. If you see the packets coming back at you rather than !H you know someone is defaulting. Alex Bligh Xara Networks