"Tactical" /24 announcements
William Herrin
bill at herrin.us
Thu Aug 12 17:58:15 UTC 2021
On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 10:39 AM Amir Herzberg <amir.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 1:22 PM William Herrin <bill at herrin.us> wrote:
>> A originates 10.0.0.0/16 to paid transit C
>> B originates 10.0.1.0/24 also to paid transit C
> Bill, I beg to respectfully differ, knowing that I'm just a researcher and working `for real' like you guys, so pls take no offence.
Hi Amir,
Why would I take offense? How do any of us learn except by trying to
poke holes in claims to see what holds up and what doesn't?
> I don't think A would be right to filter these packets to 10.0.1.0/24; A has announced 10.0.0.0/16 so should route to that (entire) prefix, or A is misleading its peers.
The alternative is that A has to disaggregate 10.0.0.0/16 into at
least 8 prefixes on the -possibility- that some jackass might filter
the one /24 that B announces. If trying to filter one route results in
7 extra routes being added to the table, that's net badness.
Filtering may not even be intentional on A's part. If A's peering
router only receives A's customer-originated routes (a common enough
architecture) then the peering router won't even have a route to B
while B's route only arrives from C.
Regards,
Bill Herrin
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William Herrin
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