Peer Filtering

Martin Barry marty at supine.com
Tue Feb 3 03:22:21 UTC 2009


$quoted_author = "John van Oppen" ;
> 
> Here in the US we don't bother, max-prefix covers it...   It seems that
> US originated prefixes are rather sporadically entered into the routing
> DBs.
 
...and you are not worried about someone leaking a subset of routes?

I understand that most failure cases would trigger a max-prefix but a typo
could allow just enough leakage to not hit max-prefix and yet still make
something "important" unreachable.

cheers
marty

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