On 11/04/2014 00:18, Bart Kus wrote:
I suspect the router does indeed speak BGP and OSPF and RIP, it's just probably not powerful enough to store the entire Internet routing table. Luckily, to solve this problem, it doesn't need to! UCSD IT can feed that router with an extremely partial BGP feed. This feed would only contain 44.0.0.0/8 Internet BGP-announced routes. We have such a feed right now on our Seattle edge router for HamWAN. Here is the entirety of the 44net routing table on the Internet:
Alot of gear at UCSD probably doesn't do anything else than static routing. You also need to consider that such routers will require maintenance. The process may crash, hang or whatever (read https://labs.ripe.net/Members/erik/ripe-ncc-and-duke-university-bgp-experime...) and will need to be monitored, eventually upgrades will need to be applied etc. Who will pay for the time spent?
73 de Marc