25 Jul
2013
25 Jul
'13
6:05 p.m.
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Protocol and Vendor agnostic yes , but people running
production
networks get nervous around "unsupported" (i.e. they can't call a
number and get help right away). devices tied into their nets. Not
saying it can't be done, but a lot of effort must be put in place
to protect the Net from trouble.
What I'm saying is that the POPs would need to be run by truly
competent personnel and configured to protect the Net from
accidental or malicious configurations at the local gateway level.
When you start messing with routing on the Internet you HAVE to
know what you are doing and trust your device not to do something
stupid.
Agreed, so we need skilled operators for the regional internet
gateways (RIGs) and they should be working close with or even within
the organization hosting the RIGs. The hoster is also free to take any
actions necessary to protect it's network by filtering and limiting
the announcements from the RIG or even shutdown the BGP session
completely.
All this however doesn't change the fact that the setup does not
require hardware from big C or big J or whomever, a carefully selected
Linux Box running some kind of routing daemons (e.g. Quagga, Bird,
ExaBGP) can suffice to cope with all the tasks. Alot of projects have
proven that a stable service using Linux based BGP speakers (AS112,
a.ntpns.org (aka AS6647), etc) is possible.
73 de Marc, LX1DUC
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