Routing Tables
because of convergence times of peers, information for
even a single prefix may be inconsistent for peers
even if the internal networks of peers have converged, there
may be additional delay getting that information to the
monitor box
since BGP only publishes the "best" path at each AS hop,
information about secondary paths can be lost. So building
an AS topology graph may not actually capture backup
paths or peering
people occasionally announce routes they shouldn't or
deaggregate prefixes due to misconfiguration
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