[afnog] Peering for Route Analysis

[Brian Candler]

On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 10:24:10AM +0300, Badru Ntege wrote:
> Can we get advisory comment from those more knowlegable on the list.  Do
> this help us or Not ???

Depends how good/useful their tool is to you.

Cost to you is:

* Initial setup and on-going management of an external multi-hop BGP peer.
  Hopefully low effort, but you should take care with initial setup to
  filter out any routes originating from their side. That's just prudence.

* Bandwidth for relaying BGP updates via your upstream provider.
  I guess this should be fairly low, if you have flap dampening properly
  configured, but then again if your own link flaps you could end up
  dumping a full route table across every time.

Benefit: I don't know the tool, so I can't say how useful it is.

If you don't have to enter into a contract with them to provide service for
a minimum amount of time, then I guess it's pretty low risk. If you don't
like the tool, you can unconfigure the peering and be back where you were.

Regards,

Brian.