BGP FlowSpec support on provider networks

Sat Apr 11 12:52:19 UTC 2009

On Apr 11, 2009, at 12:54 AM, Christopher Morrow wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 6:38 PM, John Payne <john at sackheads.org>  
> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Apr 10, 2009, at 4:27 PM, "Fouant, Stefan" <Stefan.Fouant at neustar.biz 
>> >
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi folks,
>>>
>>> I am trying to compile data on which providers are currently  
>>> supporting
>>> BGP Flowspec at their edge, if there are any at all.  The few  
>>> providers
>>> I've reached out to have indicated they do not support this and  
>>> have no
>>> intention of supporting this any time in the near future.  I'm also
>>> curious why something so useful as to have the ability to  
>>> advertise flow
>>> specification information in NLRI and distribute filtering  
>>> information
>>> is taking so long to gain a foothold in the industry...
>>
>> Can you name 3 major vendors who support it?  I suspect more  
>> providers would
>
> juniper... and when they dropped the IPR stuff other vendors basically
> walked away :(

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