Fwd: RE: Global routing table bloat

Sun Feb 18 18:04:56 UTC 2001

Another responsible net-citizen.

-Hank

>From: "Bluett, Mike" <mbluett at netcom.ubc.ca>
>To: "'Hank Nussbacher'" <hank at att.net.il>, demco at cs.ubc.CA, mbluett at bc.net,
>         config at canet.ca, shafik.hirjee at bellnexxia.com
>Subject: RE: Global routing table bloat
>Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 14:24:18 -0800
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>
>Yes, we are aware of this and started last week to implement some further 
>aggregation. Our upstream providers have to get their prefix filters 
>updated before we can go ahead with the routing change. That process is 
>almost complete.
>
>Either tomorrow or early next week we should be cutting our routes by 
>approx. 100 prefixes.
>
>Have a great day!!!
>
>Mike Bluett
>BCNET
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Hank Nussbacher [mailto:hank at att.net.il]
>Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 2:05 PM
>To: demco at cs.ubc.CA; mbluett at bc.net; config at canet.ca;
>shafik.hirjee at bellnexxia.com
>Subject: Global routing table bloat
>
>
>AS271 has been lately seen to be sending out too many prefixes not based on
>CIDR boundries, thereby increasing the global router table size:
>
>ASnum    NetsNow NetsCIDR  NetGain  % Gain   Description
>AS271        280      132      148   52.9%   University of British Columbia
>
>See http://www.mcvax.org/~jhma/routing/ and
>http://www.employees.org:80/~tbates/cidr-report.html
>for further details.
>
>I hope you can take the time to add the appropriate BGP filters so that the
>we all do not suffer from global router table bloat.
>
>Thanks,
>Hank