On Route Aggregation Franck Le IBM T. J. Watson e@us.ibm.com Geoffrey G. Xie Naval Postgraduate School xie@nps.edu Hui Zhang Carnegie Mellon University hzhang@cs.cmu.edu ABSTRACT Route Aggregation (RA), the method to supersede a set of routes by a single, more general route, is a fundamental mechanism to the Internet scalability. Yet, despite its importance, it is poorly understood. We present the rst systematic analysis of RA via both bottom-up experimental and top-down analytical approaches. We rst conduct a set of experiments on RA behaviors of all major routing protocols as implemented by the two leading router vendors. Our experiments show that the RA behaviors vary signi cantly across routing protocols and vendors. We propose two router level primitives and incorporate them into a canonical router model. The new model captures the diversity of the observed behaviors. With aid of the model, we have advanced the fundamental understanding of RA on three fronts. First, we expose four new types of routing anomaly that can derive from RA. Con guring RA on one router interface can in uence how routes are advertised on other interfaces of the same router, impacting network reachability in surprising ways. Second, we demonstrate that determining whether
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