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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! =)


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