IX Peering - BGP Session Filtering Best Practice

Paul WALL pauldotwall at gmail.com
Tue Sep 22 02:52:29 UTC 2015


You might want to check out Console by IIX (www.iix.net).

They are re-shaping peering automation with SDN.

Drive Slow,
Paul WALL

On 9/21/15, Erik Sundberg <ESundberg at nitelusa.com> wrote:
> Just wondering how far everyone is going on filtering BGP sessions when
> peering with other content providers and carriers over an internet
> exchange.
>
> What are you doing.
>
> 1.      Just filtering out IPv4 Reserved Space, RFC 1918, and Default
> Routes.
>
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> 2.      AS Path Filtering. Only filtering by the AS's that are present in
> the IRR Record.
>
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> 3.      Filtering by IP Prefix based on the IRR Record for the Peer. (Yes
> some Prefix Filter list can be a couple thousand lines)
>
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> 4.      Doing both #3 and 4 listed above.
>
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> Besides Peering DB is there any software to help keep track of IX and
> Peering info. So far I have only found IXP-MANGER
>
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