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A Day in the Life: The Global BGP Table

Much has been written and a lot of analysis performed on the global BGP table over the years, a significant portion by the inimitable Geoff Huston. However this often focuses on is long term trends, like the growth of the routing table or the adoption of IPv6 , dealing with time frames of of months or years.

Much has been written and a lot of analysis performed on the global BGP table over the years, a significant portion by the inimitable Geoff Huston. I was more interested in what was happening in the short term: what does it look like on the front line for those poor routers connected to the churning, foamy chaos of the interenet, trying their best to adhere to Postel’s Law? What we’ll look at in this article is “a day in the life of the global BGP table”, exploring the intra-day shenanigans with an eye to finding some of the ridiculous things that go on out.

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