A nice academic paper looking at the causes of BGP errors. They found
configuration errors are pervasive, with 200-1200 prefixes experienceing
problems due to misconfigurations every day. But they also found the Net
is relatively robust, with only one in twenty-five misconfigurations
affect connectivity.
http://www.acm.org/sigcomm/sigcomm2002/papers/bgpmisconfig.html
A nice academic paper looking at the causes of BGP
errors. They found
configuration errors are pervasive, with 200-1200
prefixes experienceing
problems due to misconfigurations every day. But
they also found the Net
is relatively robust, with only one in twenty-five
misconfigurations
affect connectivity.
http://www.acm.org/sigcomm/sigcomm2002/papers/bgpmisconfig.html
Another important conclusion of the paper is: Not all
misconfigurations are due to manual errors.