On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 01:02:38PM -0800, Sean Donelan darkened my spool with the following:

On Wed, 15 November 2000, john heasley wrote:

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i think all agree that filtering large/teir 1 peers (let's assume teir 1 is defined as a peer who sends a large number of routes, ie: ignore the business BS) the way customers are/should be filtered (by exact match prefix) is impossible with the hardware (and/or implementations) available today.

Five years ago there wasn't a single IP router capable of doing OC48 either.

How do we fix this?

1) Convince large/tier 1 peers to include full route table filter requirements in their purchasing when deciding whether to buy Cisco or Juniper?

2) Pass the Internet Stability Act of 2000 mandating full peer filters by 2002, and providing for civil fines by any affected party against any tier one not in compliance? Any router vendor not in compliance will be removed from the GSA purchasing schedule.

This is a very old problem folks. We've known about several solutions for years.

great, that must be why these problems dont occur. which solution are you using? i'm not flinging s*!@ over the fence; i'm truely interested.