[AusNOG] Route filter update management advice.

[David Hughes]

On 26/05/2010, at 11:21 AM, Sean K. Finn wrote:

> G'day all.
> 
> Just curious to see if there are any easy ways or generally accepted methods of notifying upstream providers of AS path additions and IP range additions when downstream customers make changes?

How you interact with your upstream will totally depend on the upstream.  It'll be the usual mixed bag of web forms, email to noc@ etc etc .  Not much you can do about that.


> Is it really just a case of needing to do this stuff manually forever more?

For your own sanity, generating your BGP and filtering config from an RPSL specification is a good step forward.  I've been working on that for a while now.  The old  IRR Toolset ( irrtoolset.isc.org) has been horrible to work with over the years but is getting better.  If it wasn't written in c++ I'd be helping maintain and enhance it.  Shame about the choice of language really.  But, it's getting more portable and reliable so it's a good starting point.  That and IRRd (www.irrd.net) should help remove some of the manual aspects.


David
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