Understanding BGP misconfiguration

Sun Jul 28 01:21:02 UTC 2002

--- Sean Donelan <sean at donelan.com> wrote:
> 
> A nice academic paper looking at the causes of BGP
> errors.  They found
> configuration errors are pervasive, with 200-1200
> prefixes experienceing
> problems due to misconfigurations every day.  But
> they also found the Net
> is relatively robust, with only one in twenty-five
> misconfigurations
> affect connectivity.
> 
>
http://www.acm.org/sigcomm/sigcomm2002/papers/bgpmisconfig.html
> 

Another important conclusion of the paper is: Not all 
misconfigurations are due to manual errors.

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