Re: [j-nsp] Am I carrying this route or not ?

2013-03-25 Thread Zehef Poto
This is exactly the clarification I was looking for. Now I completely got it I think. Thanks a lot guys. Cheers, 2013/3/24 Payam Tarverdyan Chychi pchy...@gmail.com On 13-03-24 2:08 PM, Payam Tarverdyan Chychi wrote: Hey, I'm not sure what the actual exact request from the user was since

Re: [j-nsp] Am I carrying this route or not ?

2013-03-24 Thread Payam Chychi
Hey, I suggest grabbing a book on routing and ip fundamentals but here is a basic overview You get routs, you install routes, you pass routes... So what does this mean? Every protocol exchanges routes but before it makes them active it must run its specific algorithm to ensure best path is

Re: [j-nsp] Am I carrying this route or not ?

2013-03-24 Thread Andrew Miehs
On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 8:21 AM, Zehef Poto mpdech...@gmail.com wrote: I just inherited our backbone. We're a small LIR, we have an AS. The backbone consists of four MX80 routers, all acting as eBGP edge ones (there are various IP transit links up and running on all of them). I also use OSPF

Re: [j-nsp] Am I carrying this route or not ?

2013-03-24 Thread Tobias Heister
Hi All, Am 24.03.2013 00:26, schrieb Jeff Wheeler: Whoever that person is that said something about use next-hop-self in this context, either you misunderstood them, or you shouldn't listen to them anymore. That has nothing to do with looking to see if your router knows about a route. This

Re: [j-nsp] Am I carrying this route or not ?

2013-03-24 Thread Zehef Poto
Hey guys, Thank you all for the very valuable input. Actually yes, Tobias is right, I'm having this question because of the (quoted by Tobias) e-mail we got yesterday across several IXPs. I just don't understand what is to carry a route in my backbone. Am I not supposed to know all of (or most

Re: [j-nsp] Am I carrying this route or not ?

2013-03-24 Thread Payam Chychi
Carry a route is the same as accepting a route and having it become active, allowing traffic to traverse your network to the destination. In this case the user is asking you to drop the route (attack traffic) at your edge if possible and not to carry it through your network and deliver it to

Re: [j-nsp] Am I carrying this route or not ?

2013-03-24 Thread Zehef Poto
Thank you Payam. I think I got what you mean. In this particular case however, the X/22 route is not a customer or anything. It is the IXP's peering LAN ! So... It means that the person requested all the IXP's members to null-route the whole peering LAN ? How can you possibly ask for this ? I

Re: [j-nsp] Am I carrying this route or not ?

2013-03-24 Thread Payam Tarverdyan Chychi
On 13-03-24 2:08 PM, Payam Tarverdyan Chychi wrote: Hey, I'm not sure what the actual exact request from the user was since i don't really participate much in the AMS-IX anymore ... maybe the attack was destined towards their actual nei ip on the exchange (initially i assumed /22 was their

Re: [j-nsp] Am I carrying this route or not ?

2013-03-24 Thread Payam Tarverdyan Chychi
Hey, I'm not sure what the actual exact request from the user was since i don't really participate much in the AMS-IX anymore ... maybe the attack was destined towards their actual nei ip on the exchange (initially i assumed /22 was their network, sounds like maybe they meant the /22 that

Re: [j-nsp] Am I carrying this route or not ?

2013-03-24 Thread joel jaeggli
On 3/24/13 1:24 PM, Zehef Poto wrote: Thank you Payam. I think I got what you mean. In this particular case however, the X/22 route is not a customer or anything. It is the IXP's peering LAN ! So... It means that the person requested all the IXP's members to null-route the whole peering LAN ?

[j-nsp] Am I carrying this route or not ?

2013-03-23 Thread Zehef Poto
Hey guys, The question may seem very noobish and I'm very sorry if that's the case indeed. I'm kind of junior when it comes to enterprise routing... I just inherited our backbone. We're a small LIR, we have an AS. The backbone consists of four MX80 routers, all acting as eBGP edge ones (there

Re: [j-nsp] Am I carrying this route or not ?

2013-03-23 Thread Jeff Wheeler
On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 5:21 PM, Zehef Poto mpdech...@gmail.com wrote: I just inherited our backbone. We're a small LIR, we have an AS. The backbone consists of four MX80 routers, all acting as eBGP edge ones (there are various IP transit links up and running on all of them). I also use OSPF