On Monday 31 July 2006 13:54, Hari Kurup wrote:
> What fast growth? There has been no growth in the last 3 years
> +. With only 5 peers and very rare updates, your suggestion
> may be overkill.

Well, one complaint on this thread someone put out was problems 
with keeping prefix information up to date. My "overkill" 
suggestion would help alleviate that, but then again, it's just 
a suggestion.

> Infact it could get us in more problems because any peer
> announcing bogus routes will ensure that we spend more time
> breaking our heads looking for the mishap.

I thought we tackled this issue through the lines... better to do 
this at the border (upstream links) of your network. Besides, 
does every provider in .ug accept full BGP feeds? Kill it at the 
exit point and be done with it :).

> We would rather leave it the way it is, as long as we can get
> the mailing list working and all members subscribed.

Fair enough; one of my policies when constructing IP networks is 
always THINK BIG, and build for it, at the same cost. Designing 
small networks is easy, but problems come when it's time to 
scale them for "prime time"; you don't want to bring the network 
down and redesign it just to support 200Mbps more bandwidth, or 
even just 50Mbps more traffic.

I apply this theory to all areas of the network, including 
peering.

Scaling is a problem that bites many of us in the behind, down 
the line...

Cheers,

Mark.

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