I'll just take up one comment to clarify what is going on At 5/26/01 11:43 PM, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
A quick cursory view on route-views shows that there may indeed be benefits from aggregating from 1221 (and also that they are bleeding RFC1918 stuff to the route-server). I won't pretend I've check it thoroughly recently, I assume those who claim to aren't lying to me :)
One of the views AS1221 sends to route-views is an _internal_ view of AS1221, treating AS6447 as a member of a confederation with AS1221 rather than as an external relationship - this implies that the information being sent from this view includes a whole set of internal routes (about 12,000) which are not advertised to external BGP peers. The role of route-views is one of a single repository of a set of views of the network from different persectives - there is no desire to 'sanitize' route-views to take various forms of filtered information, nor are there any traffic engineering filters applied to the feed as there is no data traffic flowing as a consequence of this route exchange. The utility of route-views as a research tool relies on the ability to take a collection of unfiltered internal views of the Internet from a number of perspectives. I'm not sure that the implied criticism that the routes being fed are internal routes is a valid one. --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog