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Re: BGP prefix filter list


From: "Radu-Adrian Feurdean" <nanog () radu-adrian feurdean net>
Date: Fri, 17 May 2019 12:10:18 +0200

On Thu, May 16, 2019, at 16:38, Blake Hudson wrote:
offloading that responsibility onto the transit provider. IMHO, what's 
the point of being multi-homed if you can't make intelligent routing 
decisions and provide routing redundancy in the case of a transit 
provider outage?

Speaking of "intelligent routing", this is why doing some targeting on what you filter by some criteria other than 
prefix or as-path length is a good idea. Either manually every once in a while (just make sure that you at least check 
the situation every few weeks), or in an automated manner (better). You just need more data (usually *flow/ipfix based) 
in order to be able to take the good decisions.

You can use traffic levels (or better - lack of traffic), traffic criticality (?!?! cirticity ?!?!) and prefix count 
saving as criteria.

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R-A.F. 


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