[routing-wg]routing table growth

Hank Nussbacher said the following on 18/1/06 06:16:
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> Incidentally, I've been on IHUG now for over 2 months and about 1 email a
> week.  Some cases are just very hard to crack.  I have now approached
> their upstream - Asiatelecom.

In my experience of trying to work with the deaggregators, quite often
the people receiving the e-mails don't understand what the problem is,
so transfer the message to the bit bucket. :-( Face to face makes a huge
different, but that's close to impractical, and not everyone goes to
NOGs to interact with people who are willing to help.

> When I did it, Barry Greene and others volunteered their time to review
> configs to help ISPs fix their leakages that they may not have known how
> to do.  The problem is those that leak because they want to leak.

There are many who leak because they really have to. There are many who
leak because they got 8 Class Cs from the RIR, as was noted earlier; and
have genuinely no idea that they are doing something "wrong". Most I'm
in touch with are delighted to receive assistance in improving their BGP
configurations - as aggregation usually means significantly improved
performance and reliability too (they say).

> To be successful, one has to not only notify the leaker but also be
> prepared to help him/her with their Junos/IOS configs.

Absolutely.

> Get 4-5 people willing to volunteer 5-10 hours per month and I'm on board.

Same here, I'm more than happy to help restart and contribute more time
to this effort... Maybe we can think about setting up a Routing Working
Group task force or something? Discussion topic for Istanbul?

philip
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