BGP Filtering

Sat Jan 19 10:21:15 UTC 2008

On 15 Jan 2008, at 16:11, Ben Butler wrote:

> As a transit consumer - why would I want to carry all this cr*p in my
> routing table, I would still be getting a BGP route to the larger  
> prefix
> anyway - let my transit feeds sort out which route they use & traffic
> engineering.

Maybe you don't get covering aggregates.  That causes holes.  Whether  
you care is a matter of local policy, though. :-)