Performance metrics used in commercial BGP route optimizers

Tue Jul 16 18:10:37 UTC 2019

Nowhere near the number as an engineer fat fingering a route. There are ISPs that accept routes all the way to /32 or /128, for traffic engineering with ease, and/or RTBH.

Ryan

-----Original Message-----
From: NANOG <nanog-bounces at nanog.org> On Behalf Of Nick Hilliard
Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2019 11:04 AM
To: Job Snijders <job at instituut.net>
Cc: NANOG <nanog at nanog.org>
Subject: Re: Performance metrics used in commercial BGP route optimizers

Job Snijders wrote on 16/07/2019 18:41:
> I consider it wholly inappropriate to write-off the countless hours 
> spend dealing with fallout from "BGP optimizers" and the significant 
> financial damages we've sustained as "religious arguments".

it would be interesting to see research into the financial losses experienced by people and organisations across the internet caused by routing outages relating to bgp optimisers.

Nick