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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: BGP Blowup?
So far the data is as follows: 1. My BGP session to Sprint (1239) exceeded 75000 routes at approx 5:39pm PST 2. Telestra seems to have had a similar surge from Uknown provider (or possibly on their own network) 3. Another individual reported that their GTEI (7176) session had a similar surge. 4. Yet another individual reported that their Digex session had a surge as well. I guess I'm confused. While 4 similar surges in table size at 3 distinct locations is not by any means conclusive evidence that the global table was experiencing wackiness, it certainly points a finger in the that direction. What perhaps bothers me more than the surge itself is that I have gotten very few (read 1) responses to indicate that there were NOT a problem similar to what I've reported. I get the feeling that many people are not tracking prefix counts so I'm am very nervous about future occurences. At what point does an event like this become a problem that gets noticed? Does it take a full meltdown of BGP speakers in a large providers network before this is worth looking at? I would think that a sudden random addition of 10,000 routes would be of concern to people who claim to be so worried about the size of the world's routing tables. Or is it only a concern if actually affects your network? I'm not attacking anyone, just concerned over the apparent lack of concern... It is interesting that all of the individuals that had direct UUNet sessions didn't see any of the surge on those sessions. Maybe they learned from the MCI experience awhile back? -- Tim -------------------------------------------------- * Timothy M. Wolfe, Chief Network Engineer * * ClipperNet Corporation / It's a wireless world * * [email protected] 800.338.2629 x 402 * * Sufficient for today = Inadequate for tomorrow * --------------------------------------------------
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