Hi Giuseppe,

Many thanks.

I'm the one who post that in February about the two ASN which is also posted in other forums by other network pro, although I'm NOT affected at that time, when it shows up in my log, I quickly block those two ASN and put "bgp maxas-limit 75" for precaution.

This month, I see only one ASN. Coincidentally there are users who experienced slowness accessing internet. I'm guessing that some ISP routers running BGP may have been affected drastically. Funny though, I don't see anybody discussing them or even post it in any forum like the first two.

I have not follow up that post, after posting this and search for my old post, I saw your reply there.

From the link you provided, my question is what is the use of prepending over 200 times and why thus it is allowed by IOS. Shouldn't the IOS be build as to not allow any noob who just got their BGP license yesterday do that?

Check your BGP logs July 01, 2009 @01:30GMT

Thanks,

Dandy

I do not see a need for that many times. I know that I have worked with vendors that have a filter set-up to only allow the AS to be pre-pended 5 times, this is their max. There really is no need for more than that. I had a fellow employee set it up 30 times and went to a route views server and started laughing telling me to watch this. He checked the route and was upset to only see the prepending 5 times!

Hi,

I'm confused here:

Are you saying your fellow employee prepended his AS number 30 times and the ISP advertised his prefix to the Internet but reduced 30 repeating AS numbers to 5 only?

How could that be done?

So far I understood no such a manipulation would be possible with public AS numbers?

Thanks,

Milan