Fwd: RE: Global routing table bloat

[Hank Nussbacher <hank () att net il>]

Another responsible net-citizen.

-Hank

> From: "Bluett, Mike" <mbluett () netcom ubc ca>
> To: "'Hank Nussbacher'" <hank () att net il>, demco () cs ubc CA, mbluett () bc net,
>         config () canet ca, shafik.hirjee () bellnexxia com
> Subject: RE: Global routing table bloat
> Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 14:24:18 -0800
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>
> Yes, we are aware of this and started last week to implement some further 
> aggregation. Our upstream providers have to get their prefix filters 
> updated before we can go ahead with the routing change. That process is 
> almost complete.
>
> Either tomorrow or early next week we should be cutting our routes by 
> approx. 100 prefixes.
>
> Have a great day!!!
>
> Mike Bluett
> BCNET
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hank Nussbacher [mailto:hank () att net il]
> Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 2:05 PM
> To: demco () cs ubc CA; mbluett () bc net; config () canet ca;
> shafik.hirjee () bellnexxia com
> Subject: Global routing table bloat
>
>
> AS271 has been lately seen to be sending out too many prefixes not based on
> CIDR boundries, thereby increasing the global router table size:
>
> ASnum    NetsNow NetsCIDR  NetGain  % Gain   Description
> AS271        280      132      148   52.9%   University of British Columbia
>
> See http://www.mcvax.org/~jhma/routing/ and
> http://www.employees.org:80/~tbates/cidr-report.html
> for further details.
>
> I hope you can take the time to add the appropriate BGP filters so that the
> we all do not suffer from global router table bloat.
>
> Thanks,
> Hank