[afnog] How to convince providers to take the sane option....

[Ishmael Mulli (KE)]

   Hi 
We experienced this problem a couple of years back  and one major realization we made was that a lot of the providers out there were propagating routes with different prefix lengths  from different points within their network as opposed to consistently propagating the exact prefix  from the core outwards.

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From: afnog [mailto:afnog-bounces at afnog.org] On Behalf Of Mark Tinka
Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2014 10:04 PM
To: Andrew Alston
Cc: afnog at afnog.org
Subject: Re: [afnog] How to convince providers to take the sane option....

On Tuesday, May 13, 2014 07:58:05 PM Andrew Alston wrote:

> Unfortunately, I also have to say that I believe what we are seeing 
> here is the result of a massive amount of legacy hardware deployed 
> that prevents people from running full table, if there was more full 
> table deployment, these issues would have been seen and dealt with 
> already (I assume)

To be honest, I don't think this is the issue, Andrew.

There a lot of operators in eastern and southern Africa that have capable hardware who are still routing inconsistently; be it inconsitent routing within Africa, or inconsistent routing between Africa and non-Africa interconnect points.

If you ask me, a lot of operators in Africa place a higher significance on circuits that travel to Europe, than to those that remain within Africa (regional or in-country). 
While this makes sense for traffic that does not natively reside within Africa, it does not make sense for traffic that can be picked up within Africa. But, unfortunately, this policy is extended to all links, regardless of whether they serve Africa or non-Africa traffic.

Mark.

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