Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 13:21:20 -0400 From: Matt Levine <matt@deliver3.com>
Agreed, so throw the bad route to the bit bucket and leave the bgp session open, or at the very least (as others have suggested) give me an OPTION to do that. Bad enough we were only operating at 33% capacity, however, if we only had transit from the 4 that were giving us the bad route, we would have lost connectivity totally. While it
<imesho> On the surface, this appears to be correct. But let's ask ourselves _why_ those upstreams had bad routes. It's because _they_ did not filter at the edge. If bad routes leak, but are filtered before reaching the core, then they never make it to you. IOW, your concern is a non-issue if the large providers apply similar filtering at the edge. You wouldn't be cutting yourself off because the provider in question would have filtered it long ago. Do it at the edge, and the Internet does not become any more brittle. As for making money... if the general agreement is that "BGP death penalty" is correct, let the violators and bad BGP speakers face the consequences of spewing garbage. </imesho> Eddy --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brotsman & Dreger, Inc. EverQuick Internet Division Phone: +1 (316) 794-8922 Wichita/(Inter)national Phone: +1 (785) 865-5885 Lawrence --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 11:23:58 +0000 (GMT) From: A Trap <blacklist@brics.com> To: blacklist@brics.com Subject: Please ignore this portion of my mail signature. These last few lines are a trap for address-harvesting spambots. Do NOT send mail to <blacklist@brics.com>, or you are likely to be blocked.