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> And if we extrapolate that lesson to IP networks it implies that any > medium to large sized organization should do their own BGP peering > and multihome to 3 or more upstream network providers. On the other > hand, if you understand why electrical networks shed load and develop > their cascading failures, you might see some parallels between "load" > and the propagation of BGP announcements which are worrying. Makes remember the days of AS7007... AS numbers are very much like power grids.. > > Perhaps we should start working on a hierarchical routing system in > which the concept of a "global routing table" cannot develop. Perhaps > announcements and withdraws should have a TTL so that they never > propogate very far from their source AS? And how would global uniqueness and reachability of a route be done? Dampening to some extent quite helps a lot.. -hc -- Sincerely, Haesu C. TowardEX Technologies, Inc. WWW: http://www.towardex.com E-mail: [email protected] Cell: (978) 394-2867 > > --Michael Dillon > > >
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