RouteViews BGP data format 192.172.226.0/24 134.24.127.30 64 1740 195 1909 i CAIDA network peer (cerf) med cerf sdsc caida 192.172.226.0/24 204.147.128.141 - 145 195 1909 i CAIDA network peer (vbns) med vbns sdsc caida AS path: 1740 195 1909 Grows from tail to head - "prepending": CAIDA advertizes prefix to SDSC SDSC advertizes CAIDA's prefix to CERF ergo, CERF "knows" how to send traffic to CAIDA