New Internet Routing Statistics

bmanning at isi.edu bmanning at isi.edu
Mon Apr 8 15:00:56 UTC 1996


Ever taken a look at the iepg web page?


> 
> If there were to be a www.nanog.org, it should have snapshots of important
> messages in the nanog list, like
> 
> Thu Apr  4 01:05:15 MST 1996 Sprint feeds routes to RA for statistical
> 			     reasons.  see URL...
> ya da ya da ya da
> 
> Maybe a couple of help documents:
> 
> - Safety tips for peering at exchanges
>  a) how to build a filter list that won't hose everyone else
>  b) why you should use dampening
>  c) don't forget to passive-interface your interfaces...OSPF neighbors across
> 	an exchange are bad...
> 
> - NO's guide.
>  a) how to tune performance on 7000 series routers
>  b) how important is the RADB?  The RS?
>  c) sample routing policies currently in use and implementation pointers
>  d) what can I do to help with the growth of the routing table?
> 
> - vendor specific gotchas
>  a) Cisco bugs that will bite you in the ass every time
>  b) Bay Network trials and tribulations
>  c) gated; it looks like I could compile this config file.
> 
> - new technologies
>  a) caching with harvest/NS/cern; shoud I bother
>  b) ATM/packet shredding; what's the word?
>  c) muxing?  SONET?  what next?
> 
> - Useful URL's
> 
> so on and so forth.
> 
> Sure, it sounds like a good topic for a book, too....but these are the
> operational issues which get discussed (for the most part) on this list,
> and a web page should represent that.
> 
> Dave
> 
> -- 
> Dave Siegel		     Sr. Network Engineer, RTD Systems & Networking
> (520)623-9663		     Network Consultant -- Regional/National NSPs
> dsiegel at rtd.com		     User Tracking & Acctg -- "Written by an ISP, 
> http://www.rtd.com/~dsiegel/					for an ISP."
> 


-- 
--bill



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