On 30/06/2015 14:29, Mark Tinka wrote: > - Get your downstreams to create route objects before you turn them up. > - Get your provisioning teams to validate the prefixes being > provided by your downstreams. > - Use both prefix- and AS_PATH-based filters for your downstreams. > - Use BGP communities (as you've stated). > - No exceptions.
plus: - fully automate ingress prefix management - use maxprefixes with manual reenable on all ebgp sessions I've been caught with fully automated IRR based per-session prefix filtering where the customer put the IXP AS macro into their AS macro. When the customer did a 7007 on this, we accepted everything that they announced back to us, oy vey. So you need both. Nick