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Re: 200K prefixes - Weekly Routing Table Report

  • From: Jerry Pasker
  • Date: Fri Oct 13 16:02:31 2006 


On Oct 13, 2006, at 2:02 PM, Routing Analysis Role Account wrote:




Routing Table Report   04:00 +10GMT Sat 14 Oct, 2006

Analysis Summary
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BGP routing table entries examined:������������������������������
200339
    Prefixes after maximum aggregation:��������������������������
108814



Shall we all have a moment of silence for 200K prefixes in the global table.

Maybe reboot all our routers at once or something?

--
TTFN,
patrick




Thanks for reminding me to change my neighbor
maximum-prefix 250000 80 statements to something
more "reasonable" before I started getting
warnings to my pager! I'm still a few thousand
routes shy of 200K as of today......



I like that second line that you included.
Maximum aggregation isn't always possible, but I
think there are a lot of operators out there that
don't aggregate as much as they could. They cite
various reasons for chewing up router memory (
"Oh, it's technically impossible....". or my
favorite.... "because someone could announce more
specifics and steal our traffic, so we have to
announce 842 /24s all separately, ALL THE TIME" )
while the rest of the net doesn't seem to have
those issues, (or they deal with them as they
happen... "uh, oh, someone's blackholing our
traffic, let's announce our space as /24s until
we can get that other operator to correct their
stupidity... we'll withdraw the /24s as soon as
it's fixed 22 hours later....")



You should have put a difference number there
too, just so everyone didn't have to get out
their calculators to figure out how many extra
routes there are (91525). So since my calculator
is out, I did some more numbers. Of those 91,525
routes that are extra routes in the table,
14,444 of those are the dirty-30.



So of those top 30 ASes that I refer to as the
"Dirty Thirty", represent .13% (POINT ONE THREE
PERCENT!) of the ASes, but they contribute 15.7%
of the amount of route-bloat on the net!!
.13%,=15.7%.



The dirty-thirty is a shameful list. But
apparently there isn't enough pressure from
within the routing community to not be on it. At
least not yet. ;-)



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