Modelling a large ISP network with C-BGP

Cc: nanog@nanog.org
From: Christian Kuhtz <kuhtzch@corp.earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: Modelling a large ISP network with C-BGP
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 17:19:50 -0500
To: Gregory Hicks <ghicks>

>
>> From: Christian Kuhtz <kuhtzch@corp.earthlink.net>
>> Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 15:38:57 -0500
>>
>>>
>>> I fail to see a usage for smaller ISP that are using BGP only
>>> for peering and OSPF internaly.
>>
>> Why would you need to sim this at small scale?
>
> How about for a net that has 540+ networks? It would be
> interesting to see what happens if you perturb this BEFORE you do
> the perturbation...

*sigh*

You just made me speechless. All I can come with is "Well, DUH!"

Christian:

Honestly, I didn't *mean* to make you speechless! It just happened...

What I *meant* to write was

... 540+ SUBnets. We have several /16 addresses and some 35K hosts right now - but
still growing... All this is hiding behind one AS... (used to be three ASes)