NSPs and filters
Vadim Antonov
avg at pluris.com
Sun Jul 13 08:45:05 UTC 1997
randy> So, at POP X, I take in maybe 100 prefixes, with maybe 1000
randy> at some POPs. How do I build and maintain that filter list,
alan at mindvision.com (Alan Hannan) wrote:
> The same way you build and maintain routing filter lists for the
> prefixes you take in.
Bzzt. Routing filter lists are applied to routing updates. Packet
filter lists are applied to packets.
Big difference.
1000-entry packet filter will slow any existing router down to crawl,
and practically all future boxes won't do any better.
--vadim
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