BGP offloading (fixing legacy router BGP scalability issues)

2015-04-01 Thread Frederik Kriewitz
Hello, We've a lot of customers with Cisco 6500 routers (mostly with SUP720 supervisors) in operation. They are very popular with smaller ISPs in Africa/middle east due to their cheap price on the used marked and their fully sufficient routing performance for the given tasks. In practice the bigge

Re: BGP offloading (fixing legacy router BGP scalability issues)

2015-04-01 Thread Ca By
On Wednesday, April 1, 2015, Frederik Kriewitz wrote: > Hello, > > We've a lot of customers with Cisco 6500 routers (mostly with SUP720 > supervisors) in operation. They are very popular with smaller ISPs in > Africa/middle east due to their cheap price on the used marked and > their fully suffic

Re: BGP offloading (fixing legacy router BGP scalability issues)

2015-04-01 Thread Mark Tinka
On 1/Apr/15 19:01, Frederik Kriewitz wrote: > > We're wondering if anyone has experience with such a setup? Cisco have a feature called BGP-SD (BGP Selective Download). With BGP-SD, you can hold millions of entries in RAM, but decide what gets downloaded into the FIB. By doing this, you can sti

Re: BGP offloading (fixing legacy router BGP scalability issues)

2015-04-02 Thread Colin Johnston
or ignore/block russia and north korea and china network blocks takes away 5% of network ranges for memory headroom, especially the large number of smaller china blocks. Some may say this is harsh but is the network contacts refuse to co-operate with abuse and 100% of the traffic is bad then why

Re: BGP offloading (fixing legacy router BGP scalability issues)

2015-04-02 Thread Paul S.
Do you have data on '100% of the traffic' being bad? I happen to have a large Chinese clientbase, and this is not the case on my network. On 4/2/2015 午後 04:35, Colin Johnston wrote: or ignore/block russia and north korea and china network blocks takes away 5% of network ranges for memory head

Re: BGP offloading (fixing legacy router BGP scalability issues)

2015-04-02 Thread Mark Tinka
On 2/Apr/15 09:35, Colin Johnston wrote: > or ignore/block russia and north korea and china network blocks > takes away 5% of network ranges for memory headroom, especially the large > number of smaller china blocks. > Some may say this is harsh but is the network contacts refuse to co-operate

Re: BGP offloading (fixing legacy router BGP scalability issues)

2015-04-02 Thread Stefan Neufeind
Of course it's not something you should generalise about all people or all traffic from certain countries. But it's obvious that there are some countries which seem to care almost not at all about abuse or maybe even are sources for planned hack-attempts. And at least some large ISPs there seem to

Re: BGP offloading (fixing legacy router BGP scalability issues)

2015-04-02 Thread Mark Tinka
On 2/Apr/15 09:52, Stefan Neufeind wrote: > Of course it's not something you should generalise about all people or > all traffic from certain countries. But it's obvious that there are some > countries which seem to care almost not at all about abuse or maybe even > are sources for planned hack-a

Re: BGP offloading (fixing legacy router BGP scalability issues)

2015-04-02 Thread Colin Johnston
customers are paying for good traffic to generate eye balls and revenue, not bad traffic which clouds the good work done. I know we are getting into filtering traffic wars here but if the source admins refuse to respond, refuse to cooperate, then if 100% of the traffic is bad then why not put up

Re: BGP offloading (fixing legacy router BGP scalability issues)

2015-04-02 Thread Colin Johnston
> On 2 Apr 2015, at 08:40, Paul S. wrote: > > Do you have data on '100% of the traffic' being bad? > as a example anything in 163data.com.cn is bad Colin > I happen to have a large Chinese clientbase, and this is not the case on my > network. > > On 4/2/2015 午後 04:35, Colin Johnston wrote:

Re: BGP offloading (fixing legacy router BGP scalability issues)

2015-04-02 Thread Paul S.
163data is announced as Chinanet, a China Telecom brand. Dropping 4134 (http://bgp.he.net/AS4134) globally will get my customers up at my doors with pitchforks fairly fast, I dunno about yours Simply too big to do anything that drastic against. On 4/2/2015 午後 05:04, Colin Johnston wrote:

Re: BGP offloading (fixing legacy router BGP scalability issues)

2015-04-02 Thread Colin Johnston
> On 2 Apr 2015, at 08:57, Mark Tinka wrote: > > > > On 2/Apr/15 09:52, Stefan Neufeind wrote: >> Of course it's not something you should generalise about all people or >> all traffic from certain countries. But it's obvious that there are some >> countries which seem to care almost not at all

Re: BGP offloading (fixing legacy router BGP scalability issues)

2015-04-02 Thread Mark Tinka
On 2/Apr/15 10:00, Colin Johnston wrote: > customers are paying for good traffic to generate eye balls and revenue, not > bad traffic which clouds the good work done. > I know we are getting into filtering traffic wars here but if the source > admins refuse to respond, refuse to cooperate, then

Re: BGP offloading (fixing legacy router BGP scalability issues)

2015-04-02 Thread Colin Johnston
You would be surprised at the good effect and bandwidth incoming/outgoing gained. allow blocks on exception and document and check. drastic action done due to unresponsive contacts and 100% bad traffic Colin > On 2 Apr 2015, at 09:06, Paul S. wrote: > > 163data is announced as Chinanet, a Ch

Re: BGP offloading (fixing legacy router BGP scalability issues)

2015-04-02 Thread Mark Tinka
On 2/Apr/15 10:07, Colin Johnston wrote: > Open ranges as necessary and mention will will reblock if bad traffic seen. Might be a bit too much work for a customer to figure out when access will be granted or taken away. Would be for me, if I was your customer. > > It is called protect what you

Re: BGP offloading (fixing legacy router BGP scalability issues)

2015-04-02 Thread Stefan Neufeind
On 04/02/2015 09:57 AM, Mark Tinka wrote: > > > On 2/Apr/15 09:52, Stefan Neufeind wrote: >> Of course it's not something you should generalise about all people or >> all traffic from certain countries. But it's obvious that there are some >> countries which seem to care almost not at all about a

Re: BGP offloading (fixing legacy router BGP scalability issues)

2015-04-02 Thread Baldur Norddahl
Filtering countries is a bad idea, but it is probably possible to create filters so 99% of your actual traffic is handled by a relatively small subset of global routes and the remaining 1% routed via a default route or via a Linux box. Anyone know of tools and methods to do this? How effective is

Re: BGP offloading (fixing legacy router BGP scalability issues)

2015-04-02 Thread Mark Tinka
On 2/Apr/15 12:34, Stefan Neufeind wrote: > Not fully block / null-route of course. You might however consider to > not allow ssh-logins from certain countries (if you know what you're > doing) to avoid noise in the logs, might monitor incoming emails with > smtp-auth for suspicious activity base

Re: BGP offloading (fixing legacy router BGP scalability issues)

2015-04-02 Thread Colin Johnston
> > Most of the spam I get comes from North America. Go figure. I'm not > about to cut access to that continent off. > > I'd have to consider all other options really exhausted about fixing > this for myself before I have to go and fix it in the network in a way > that impacts other customers who

Re: BGP offloading (fixing legacy router BGP scalability issues)

2015-04-02 Thread Mark Tinka
On 2/Apr/15 13:06, Colin Johnston wrote: > It is not spam we are talking about,... I'm aware - but someone mentioned it, so it deserved it's on post. But having said that... > it is bad invalid network packets, bad web traffic probing exploits, bad > port traffic looking for open network por

Re: BGP offloading (fixing legacy router BGP scalability issues)

2015-04-02 Thread Paul S.
David Barroso's (Spotify) SDN Internet Router [0] comes to mind. 0 - https://github.com/dbarrosop/sir On 4/2/2015 午後 07:47, Baldur Norddahl wrote: Filtering countries is a bad idea, but it is probably possible to create filters so 99% of your actual traffic is handled by a relatively small subs

Re: BGP offloading (fixing legacy router BGP scalability issues)

2015-04-02 Thread Pawel Rybczyk
Hi Freddy, As Paul has mentioned, you could check the David's project - SIR, look at his presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1njanXhQqM We've also developed a platform for the BGP monitoring and routing optimization which could solve your problem. It would inject to the border routers

Re: BGP offloading (fixing legacy router BGP scalability issues)

2015-04-02 Thread Max Tulyev
Hello! Very good idea is to sell that and change it to softrouter based on PC/Linux/BIRD. Config can work like 6500/SUP750 will cost much less than $1k. On 04/01/15 20:01, Frederik Kriewitz wrote: > We're wondering if anyone has experience with such a setup?

Re: BGP offloading (fixing legacy router BGP scalability issues)

2015-04-02 Thread Bryan Tong
As a network consumer and network provider. The traffic seen by the customer should not be censored. It should be up to the consumer to protect their services. I accept the risk and want uncensored internet access and provide such to our customers. On Apr 2, 2015 11:26 AM, "Max Tulyev" wrote: >

Re: BGP offloading (fixing legacy router BGP scalability issues)

2015-04-02 Thread goemon
On Thu, 2 Apr 2015, Mark Tinka wrote: Most of the spam I get comes from North America. Go figure. I'm not about to cut access to that continent off. Big difference is that north america is usually responsive to abuse notifications and sometimes has LEO who will listen. china is neither. -Da

Re: BGP offloading (fixing legacy router BGP scalability issues)

2015-04-02 Thread Colin Johnston
yes, china ignores everything said beit by phone,email,chat at least if you call a us provider you can at least communicate its not a english language issue either chinatelcom,chinanet contact info might as well not be documented colin Sent from my iPhone > On 2 Apr 2015, at 19:05, goe...@ani

Re: BGP offloading (fixing legacy router BGP scalability issues)

2015-04-02 Thread Faisal Imtiaz
ng" > To: "Max Tulyev" > Cc: nanog@nanog.org > Sent: Thursday, April 2, 2015 2:01:30 PM > Subject: Re: BGP offloading (fixing legacy router BGP scalability issues) > > As a network consumer and network provider. The traffic seen by the > customer should not be ce

Re: BGP offloading (fixing legacy router BGP scalability issues)

2015-04-02 Thread Colin Johnston
it is not censorship to check traffic follows correct standards and does not deliberately constantly try to exploit. it could easily be solved if china abuse departments co-operate and acknowledge reports and fix if not then country bans are in place and will remain in place until culture change

Re: BGP offloading (fixing legacy router BGP scalability issues)

2015-04-02 Thread Barry Shein
The essence of this discussion is IMHO a little...um...trite. Be that as it may how many of you have attempted to contact these providers in Chinese? Or do you all have good reason to believe that is never the problem? On April 2, 2015 at 11:05 goe...@anime.net (goe...@anime.net) wrote: > On

Re: BGP offloading (fixing legacy router BGP scalability issues)

2015-04-02 Thread Colin Johnston
yes have tried chinese language communication as well. none of it works, they dont believe bad traffic is a big issue where it has been proved 100% is bad we do belive this is due to bad abuse practice not informing customers and also deliberately sending bad traffic to test exploits on a large s

Re: BGP offloading (fixing legacy router BGP scalability issues)

2015-04-02 Thread Barry Shein
Sounds there's a need for a higher level of dialogue. Hey, if it can be done with Iran... These are identifiable companies not sub-rosa criminal gangs (as we get with spam) so there ought to be some hope. On April 2, 2015 at 21:10 col...@gt86car.org.uk (Colin Johnston) wrote: > yes have tried c

Re: BGP offloading (fixing legacy router BGP scalability issues)

2015-04-02 Thread Mike Hammett
net, nanog@nanog.org Sent: Thursday, April 2, 2015 3:34:26 PM Subject: Re: BGP offloading (fixing legacy router BGP scalability issues) Sounds there's a need for a higher level of dialogue. Hey, if it can be done with Iran... These are identifiable companies not sub-rosa criminal gangs

Re: BGP offloading (fixing legacy router BGP scalability issues)

2015-04-02 Thread goemon
emails to the registered contacts bounce, for one, undeliverable. which is a bit of a change from the old chinanet auto-responder which auto-responded to every email with "i cannot find that IP or that IP not by my Control. Please send the correct IP". a number of years back i did have someo

Re: BGP offloading (fixing legacy router BGP scalability issues)

2015-04-02 Thread William Herrin
On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 1:01 PM, Frederik Kriewitz wrote: > In > practice the biggest problem with [Cisco 6500s] is their poor BGP scalability > due to the CPU/memory limitations. Hi Frederik: Are you sure about that? I would expect you to hit the wall on the TCAM long before CPU/RAM limitations.

Re: BGP offloading (fixing legacy router BGP scalability issues)

2015-04-02 Thread Bryan Holloway
I, for one, wouldn't mind seeing more dialog regarding the original poster's query ... > On Apr 2, 2015, at 14:53, Barry Shein wrote: > > > The essence of this discussion is IMHO a little...um...trite. > > Be that as it may how many of you have attempted to contact these > providers in Chine

Re: BGP offloading (fixing legacy router BGP scalability issues)

2015-04-02 Thread Colin Johnston
customers are paying for good traffic to generate eye balls and revenue, not bad traffic which clouds the good work done. I know we are getting into filtering traffic wars here but if the source admins refuse to respond, refuse to cooperate, then if 100% of the traffic is bad then why not put up

Re: BGP offloading (fixing legacy router BGP scalability issues)

2015-04-03 Thread Barry Shein
On April 2, 2015 at 14:19 goe...@anime.net (goe...@anime.net) wrote: > a number of years back i did have someone contact in chinese and the > response was that the customer was doing nothing wrong. Ok, that's progress of a sort, what's the authoritative source of right and wrong, something bey

Re: BGP offloading (fixing legacy router BGP scalability issues)

2015-04-03 Thread Bacon Zombie
Is port scanning illegal in China? If not the there is no reason for then to do anything about it. On 3 Apr 2015 19:00, "Barry Shein" wrote: > > On April 2, 2015 at 14:19 goe...@anime.net (goe...@anime.net) wrote: > > a number of years back i did have someone contact in chinese and the > > res

Re: BGP offloading (fixing legacy router BGP scalability issues)

2015-04-03 Thread Barry Shein
On April 3, 2015 at 20:22 baconzom...@gmail.com (Bacon Zombie) wrote: > Is port scanning illegal in China? > > If not the there is no reason for then to do anything about it. I don't think that's a minimal standard one has to use, illegal or not. Management of the internet infrastructure is

Re: BGP offloading (fixing legacy router BGP scalability issues)

2015-04-03 Thread Colin Johnston
portscanning on mass scale where unable to get knowledgable network/sysadmins to fix gets to the point of every part of large network ranges are affected. then country blocks make sense to protect countries from armies of exploited machines and protect valuable costly network resource colin Se

Re: BGP offloading (fixing legacy router BGP scalability issues)

2015-04-03 Thread Colin Johnston
china says not a problem since they have head in sand and ignore cooperation phone contact with chinse folks does not help either colin Sent from my iPhone > On 3 Apr 2015, at 19:51, Barry Shein wrote: > > >> On April 3, 2015 at 20:22 baconzom...@gmail.com (Bacon Zombie) wrote: >> Is port sca

Re: BGP offloading (fixing legacy router BGP scalability issues)

2015-04-03 Thread Rod Beck
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Re: BGP offloading (fixing legacy router BGP scalability issues)

2015-04-03 Thread Chris Boyd
Can we please get back to the original topic? So far we have had one interesting and useful suggestion that I've seen -- Paul S. mentioned SIR https://github.com/dbarrosop/sir Have I missed any other solutions other than the prefix length filtering? --Chris

Re: BGP offloading (fixing legacy router BGP scalability issues)

2015-04-03 Thread goemon
On Fri, 3 Apr 2015, Barry Shein wrote: On April 2, 2015 at 14:19 goe...@anime.net (goe...@anime.net) wrote: > a number of years back i did have someone contact in chinese and the > response was that the customer was doing nothing wrong. Ok, that's progress of a sort, what's the authoritative sour

Re: BGP offloading (fixing legacy router BGP scalability issues)

2015-04-03 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 03 Apr 2015 13:08:40 -0700, goe...@anime.net said: > On Fri, 3 Apr 2015, Barry Shein wrote: > > On April 2, 2015 at 14:19 goe...@anime.net (goe...@anime.net) wrote: > > > a number of years back i did have someone contact in chinese and the > > > response was that the customer was doing noth

Re: BGP offloading (fixing legacy router BGP scalability issues)

2015-04-03 Thread Scott Weeks
> ...if not then country bans are in place and will > remain in place until culture change is done : I would like country trade talks to get down to the : technical point that there are some fundamental : problems being seen with bad traffic usage and it is : significant percentage of waste

Re: BGP offloading (fixing legacy router BGP scalability issues)

2015-04-03 Thread Octavio Alvarez
On 04/03/2015 12:18 PM, Chris Boyd wrote: Can we please get back to the original topic? Also interested in the original topic. So far we have had one interesting and useful suggestion that I've seen -- Paul S. mentioned SIR https://github.com/dbarrosop/sir > Have I missed any other solution

Re: BGP offloading (fixing legacy router BGP scalability issues)

2015-04-03 Thread Baldur Norddahl
The SIR approach might not work if your switch does not support selective installing routes. Also the switch might have a very slow CPU and be memory constrained, making downloading a large number of routes impractical even if you do not install all. IX and transit providers are making this harder

Re: BGP offloading (fixing legacy router BGP scalability issues)

2015-04-03 Thread Colin Baker
On 2015-04-03 14:18, Chris Boyd wrote: Can we please get back to the original topic? So far we have had one interesting and useful suggestion that I've seen -- Paul S. mentioned SIR https://github.com/dbarrosop/sir Have I missed any other solutions other than the prefix length filtering? I

Re: BGP offloading (fixing legacy router BGP scalability issues)

2015-04-06 Thread goemon
On Fri, 3 Apr 2015, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: We've been down this road before - we've had our own problems on this side of the puddle with transit providers who refused to deal with problem customers because the provider billed by the packet, and the customers were good about paying their b

Re: BGP offloading (fixing legacy router BGP scalability issues)

2015-04-06 Thread John Levine
In article you write: >On Fri, 3 Apr 2015, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: >> We've been down this road before - we've had our own problems on this >> side of the puddle with transit providers who refused to deal with problem >> customers because the provider billed by the packet, and the customers

Re: BGP offloading (fixing legacy router BGP scalability issues)

2015-04-06 Thread goemon
On Mon, 6 Apr 2015, John Levine wrote: In article you write: On Fri, 3 Apr 2015, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: We've been down this road before - we've had our own problems on this side of the puddle with transit providers who refused to deal with problem customers because the provider billed

Re: BGP offloading (fixing legacy router BGP scalability issues)

2015-04-06 Thread William Herrin
On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 2:51 PM, John Levine wrote: > In article you write: >>At least in the US the provider could be charged with willful negligence >>and face liability. > > Please provide legal citations. http://www.americanbar.org/newsletter/publications/gp_solo_magazine_home/gp_solo_magazin

Re: BGP offloading (fixing legacy router BGP scalability issues)

2015-04-06 Thread John R. Levine
http://www.americanbar.org/newsletter/publications/gp_solo_magazine_home/gp_solo_magazine_index/civilliability.html Nothing there about ISP liability other than noting the third-party immunity from the CDA. https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2009/06/ftc-shuts-down-notorious-rogue

Re: BGP offloading (fixing legacy router BGP scalability issues)

2015-04-06 Thread John R. Levine
Please provide legal citations. ignore a dmca takedown request, see what happens. I know people who have ignored lots of DMCA notices. Of course, it was pretty clear that the notices were bogus. R's, John

Re: BGP offloading (fixing legacy router BGP scalability issues)

2015-04-09 Thread Łukasz Bromirski
Hi Frederik, > On 09 Apr 2015, at 13:24, Frederik Kriewitz wrote: > > Thank you very much for all your responses. > > First of all, the problems we see are really RIB (Processor memory) > and CPU related. > The TCAM/FIB limits are properly configured. From the FIB capacity > view they should la

Re: BGP offloading (fixing legacy router BGP scalability issues)

2015-04-09 Thread Frederik Kriewitz
Thank you very much for all your responses. First of all, the problems we see are really RIB (Processor memory) and CPU related. The TCAM/FIB limits are properly configured. From the FIB capacity view they should last a couple of more years. Software routing doesn't cause the problem. The most ext

Re: BGP offloading (fixing legacy router BGP scalability issues)

2015-05-11 Thread Chaim Rieger
Freddy, did you get your test up ? I too am facing the same BGP scalability constraints as you are, and the only real viable solution seems to be filtering. I'll probably will setup a small test environment to see if this actually works as expected. Best Regards, Freddy

Re: BGP offloading (fixing legacy router BGP scalability issues)

2015-06-03 Thread Frederik Kriewitz
On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 8:38 PM, Chaim Rieger wrote: > Freddy, did you get your test up ? Finally had some time to setup a lab environment and do some basic testing regarding the fully transparent approach mentioned in the initial email. My biggest concern was that the cisco wouldn't like packets