BGP question

Thu Nov 11 13:58:05 UTC 2004

adrian kok wrote:
> 1/ for the url:
> http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2002/08/12/multihoming.html
> I don't understand those 2 steps:
> 
> - Register your routing policy in a Routing Registry.
> - Use looking glasses to see if your announcements are
> visible elsewhere on the Internet.

> How can I register the policy?
http://www.radb.net/register.html
http://www.arin.net/library/faq/rr.html

Here is a list of IRRs:
http://www.irr.net/docs/list.html

> and how can I use the looking glasses to check?
http://www.traceroute.org/#Looking%20Glass

> 2/ I saw article. "a full BGP feed is about 110,000
> routes."
That number is old, it's almost 150000 now:
http://www.cidr-report.org/

> Do you have experience that AMD64 with 3G memory in
> Unix Box can handle it?
Uh, probably... =)
For what purpose will this box be used for?  

/herb