Performance metrics used in commercial BGP route optimizers

Tue Jul 16 14:49:37 UTC 2019

Most of which are bunk if you and your upstream have appropriate filters. 

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Mike Hammett 
Intelligent Computing Solutions 

Midwest Internet Exchange 

The Brothers WISP 

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From: "Töma Gavrichenkov" <ximaera at gmail.com> 
To: "Dimeji Fayomi" <oof1 at students.waikato.ac.nz> 
Cc: "NANOG" <nanog at nanog.org> 
Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2019 8:30:37 AM 
Subject: Re: Performance metrics used in commercial BGP route optimizers 

On Tue, Jul 16, 2019, 4:11 PM Dimeji Fayomi < oof1 at students.waikato.ac.nz > wrote: 

I'm doing a research on BGP route optimisation and the performance metrics used by commercial route optimizer appliances to select better path to a prefix. 

You may have discovered that already during your research, but just in case: basically, using those optimizers at full throttle is a bad practice and is generally discouraged. 

A research into the deep-juju of BGP optimization is roughly equivalent to a research about how alcohol may make you a faster driver. I.e. it's fine in academy but you certainly may want to emphasize security considerations in your paper. 

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Töma 

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