Outbound Route Optimization

Mon Feb 2 01:39:57 UTC 2004

RAS> Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 15:35:28 -0500
RAS> From: Richard A Steenbergen

RAS> On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 10:58:49AM -0800, Sean Finn wrote:
RAS>
RAS> >   (Quiz for the list readers:
RAS> >    What percentage of the Internet routing table does
RAS> >    your network actually use?)

Perhaps around 25% for a "moderate"-sized organizition, but
as low as 5% is not unreasonable for regionals and locals.
Discount spam from around the world, and I suspect the numbers
drop even more. :-)

RAS> I doubt you'll find anyone here who will stand up and admit
RAS> to enjoying tweaking metrics and policies more often than
RAS> once a month. The proble with interest from most of this

A couple days a couple time a year of manual testing and tweaking
for "most important" prefixes usually does the trick.

Considering industry instability, one probably changes an
upstream about as often as one would tune anyway.  Considering
the difficulty one often has finding a clued rep, one probably
spends more time educating sales reps than tuning traffic. ;-)

Eddy
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