Hey, anyone who wanna help improve the net stability?

Thu Sep 5 18:29:31 UTC 1996

This is timely for me. I recently picked up a customer who became duel
homed by virtue of their circuit to me. This customer had been propagating
145 routes via their other provider. With aggregation they only needed to
propagate 34. After having the situation explained, the customer was open 
to fixing their config. Providers should, better than anyone else, understand 
the benefits of minimizing the size of the global routing table. We could 
substantially reduce its size by just educating/policing our customers.

Jim
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> Hey all!
> 
> We are approaching 40K routes, and this seems to make IBGP in networks
> with rich external connectivity pretty unhappy.
> 
> Without pointing fingers, there are some 9K prefixes that could be 
> removed by proper aggregation/reconfiguration.
> 
> ICM-Stockholm-2#sh ip bgp summ
> BGP table version is 526856, main routing table version 526856
> 39321 network entries (300167/309954 paths) using 13491704 bytes of memory
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> I suggest that everyon go look at what they can do, as we are all
> loosers with the currect situation.
> 
> --Peter
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