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Re: genuity - any good?


From: Simon Lyall <simon.lyall () ihug co nz>
Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 10:09:02 +1200 (NZST)


On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Roy wrote:
1) Their BGP polices are not as good as others.  They force you to register
each route you want to advertise rather than allowing you to advertise any
reasonable route for your prefixes.

One of our upstreams wanted this so we just ended up sending them every
legit network/prefix combo for our main networks (2 * /17) . They end up
with over 500 entries in their database and any one time we are only
advertising about 20 of them.

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