NANOG Panel on Smart Routing

6/11/02


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Table of Contents

NANOG Panel on Smart Routing

Smart Routing

Panel Introductions

Introduction to Smart routing

Enterprise Myths and reality

Enterprise Reality

I) What is Smart Routing?

Smart Routing:

Quote from Bill Woodcock

Path Monitoring

Path Evaluation

Monitoring mechanisms –1

Monitoring mechanisms – 2

Select the best route

Steering traffic

Impact on Service Providers

Panel Answers 6 questions

1) Smart Routing Products

2) Measurements

Locations to probe

“Goodness function”

3) Measurements and Metrics

Active Probes – “ping like” (1)

Active Probes – “ping like” (2)

Active Probes: “traceroute like” (1)

Active Probes- “trace-route like” (2)

Data flow monitoring

Event and Quality Threshold

4) BGP Routing Data

5) Route steering

Change Thresholds

6) Interacts with other Enterprise Devices

Why Do Enterprise’s buy Smart Routing?

Vendors Presentations

Q & A

III) BGP Issues that Smart Routing Highlights

Enterprise Configurations

BGP route vs Traffic Performance

What metric most often determines BGP Path Selection

Where do problems exist in the Internet?

Vendor slides follow

Author: Teresa Neidel