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Re: Please help our simple bgp


From: Fredy Kuenzler <kuenzler () init7 net>
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:27:52 +0100

Am 31.01.2012 04:06, schrieb Joel Maslak:
There are several ways to handle this is, if you have at least two
/24s of space.

Let's say you just have two /24s, both part of the same /23.

[...]

Sad to see that deaggregation is still propagated to handle this issue. As a matter of fact deaggregation pollutes the global BGP table with more than 40% of rubbish, mainly caused by this silly type of traffic engineering. See the weekly routing table report or the CIDR report:

Analysis Summary
----------------

BGP routing table entries examined:                              394446
    Prefixes after maximum aggregation:                          169250
    Deaggregation factor:                                          2.33
    Unique aggregates announced to Internet:                     191523

There are many smarter ways to manage unbalanced links. See my slides presented on various occations (page 31 to 48) which describes the disadvantages and collateral damage of deaggregation:

http://www.swinog.ch/meetings/swinog23/p/03_BGP-traffic-engineering-considerations-v0.2.pdf

HTH,

--
Fredy Künzler
Init7 / AS13030


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