Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2001 01:38:10 -1000 (HST) From: Vincent Poy <vince@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET> To: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com> Cc: "Seo Boon, NG" <sbng@employees.org>, <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Dynamic routing reference sites Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.31.0101010136570.2211-100000@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10012311841020.16414-100000@misery.sdf.com>
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On Sun, 31 Dec 2000, Tom Samplonius wrote: > On Sun, 31 Dec 2000, Vincent Poy wrote: > > > > you typically do not get anything close to a full view when you peer. A peer > > > only announce itself and it's customer. Hence, u can have many peers but it's > > > rarely that u'll see 'gigs' of routes for all the peers. > > > > Yes but aren;t you supposed to get routes from each peer to build > > your own routing table? > > Different meanings of the word "peer". It can mean any BGP peer, or it > can mean a network peer, as opposed to a provider-customer relationship. > If Sprint and MCI were to establish a new interconnection, they will peer, > and usually offer each other routes for their own AS only so they don't > transit traffic for each other. That's indeed true... > BGP route table sizes are likely different everywhere. There can > differences in filters (either on what is being let in, or being let out). > Some carriers have rather restrictive route acceptance policies. > Typically route filters are designed to prevent tiny network routes from > filling their tables. Also, routes for private local ASes are cause > differences. Yep, since it's kinda like everyone has a different preference to things. > Can we please let this thread die now? If you want to learn about BGP > one fact at time, you'll be here a _long_ time. Yeah, as long as no one replies.. Thanks all! =) Cheers, Vince - vince@WURLDLINK.NET - Vice President ________ __ ____ Unix Networking Operations - FreeBSD-Real Unix for Free / / / / | / |[__ ] WurldLink Corporation / / / / | / | __] ] San Francisco - Honolulu - Hong Kong / / / / / |/ / | __] ] HongKong Stars/Gravis UltraSound Mailing Lists Admin /_/_/_/_/|___/|_|[____] Almighty1@IRC - oahu.DAL.NET Hawaii's DALnet IRC Network Server Admin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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