Performance metrics used in commercial BGP route optimizers

Tue Jul 16 21:21:18 UTC 2019

Oh I don't know about that.  There's been a pile of high profile 
incidents which have been associated with "BGP optimisers", affecting 
connectivity to huge chunks of the internet, world-wide.

It's not unusual for a single incident to have widespread or even global 
effect, and what with the Internet playing such an important part of the 
world's economies, it's hard not to be curious about the overall 
financial impact of this sort of thing.

Nick

Ryan Hamel wrote on 16/07/2019 19:10:
> Nowhere near the number as an engineer fat fingering a route. There are ISPs that accept routes all the way to /32 or /128, for traffic engineering with ease, and/or RTBH.
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> Ryan
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: NANOG <nanog-bounces at nanog.org> On Behalf Of Nick Hilliard
> Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2019 11:04 AM
> To: Job Snijders <job at instituut.net>
> Cc: NANOG <nanog at nanog.org>
> Subject: Re: Performance metrics used in commercial BGP route optimizers
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> Job Snijders wrote on 16/07/2019 18:41:
>> I consider it wholly inappropriate to write-off the countless hours
>> spend dealing with fallout from "BGP optimizers" and the significant
>> financial damages we've sustained as "religious arguments".
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> it would be interesting to see research into the financial losses experienced by people and organisations across the internet caused by routing outages relating to bgp optimisers.
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> Nick
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