On Feb 25, 2012, at 9:39 AM, Christopher Morrow wrote:

> it seems to me that most of the options discussed for this are .. bad, in one 
> dimension or another :(

Concur.

> X prefixes/packets in Y seconds/milliseconds doesn't keep the peer from 
> blowing up your RIB,

How so?  If the configured parameters are exceeded, stop accepting/inserting 
updates until this is no longer the case.  Exceptions would be made for peering 
session establishment, it would take effect after that.

> it does slow down convergence :(

Yes, but is this always necessarily a Bad Thing?  For example, this particular 
circumstance (and many like it, c.f. AS7007 incident, et. al.)  it could be 
argued that in this particular case, [incorrect?  undesirable?  premature? 
pessimal?] convergence led to a poor result, could it not?

> If you have 200 peers on an edge device, dropping the whole device's routing 
> capabilities because of one AS7007/AS1221/AS9121 .. isn't cool
> to your network nor the other customers on that device :(

Apologies for being unclear; I wasn't suggesting dropping or removing anything, 
but rather refusing to further accept/insert updates from a given peer until 
the update rate from said peer slowed to within configured parameters.

> max-prefix as it exists today at least caps the damage at one customer.

But it doesn't, really, does it?  The effects cascade in an anisotropic manner 
throughout a potentially large transit cone.

> The knobs available are sort of harsh all the way around though today :(

Concur again, sigh.

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