<div dir="ltr"><a href="http://blog.ine.com/2010/11/22/understanding-bgp-convergence/">http://blog.ine.com/2010/11/22/understanding-bgp-convergence/</a><br><div><br></div><div>in other words, es they only send the updated prefixes (or should).</div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 10:20 AM, Alex Samad - Yieldbroker <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Alex.Samad@yieldbroker.com" target="_blank">Alex.Samad@yieldbroker.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi<br>
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Currently I peer with 3 transits (2 with primary and backup links). I use 2 cisco and 1 routeros routers in play.<br>
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I have been relooking at our BGP setup. Part of that process was to filter right down, having a google and a read I have come down to these rules<br>
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On the in filter<br>
* block non routable, multicast and loopback<br>
* block 0/1-32 routes (only allow 0/0)<br>
* filter to allow only prefix's with 2 AS<br>
* allow specific prefix that have specific AS as the last hop (we have identified certain AS's that our clients are on that we would like to take more than 2 AS prefix's)<br>
* we add a local pref for all prefix's from 1 transit right now, but I am looking at changing that to just adding local pref for 0/0 instead<br>
* we drop all /24-32 prefix's<br>
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On out bound filter<br>
* only publishing our /24<br>
* block everything else<br>
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The main limiter is the cisco' the amount of memory, for routeros I can just reconfigure the VM... the move from 3 as to 2 as the number of routers went from 400k (or maybe 100K) to 15k roughly ..<br>
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I'm just about to talk to our transits to send us full BGP tables and a thought occurred to me, if I am filtering a majority of the prefix's, does the peers router keep trying to send me that info or does BGP work such that a full table is sent on initiation and then only updates afterwards ?<br>
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Basically I don't want to have to received and drop all those prefix's each time the BGP peers update( or each bgp cycle)<br>
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Any other comments welcome ?<br>
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A<br>
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