FULL-routes vs partial-routes on BGP
In the previous articles, we already talk about setting up a BGP session between routers in the form of peering. When a BGP session established, the routers will start to exchange their routing prefix, put them into the main routing table, apply BGP best-path algorithm, and the router will have optimized routes that will be used for FIB (Forwarding Information Base). FULL-routes vs partial-routes on BGP. A question arises, are those routes full or partial? What's the difference between them? Which one should I pick? Ok here it is: FULL-routes a FULL-routes is a whole prefix in the (BGP) world, meaning a collection of all prefix/routes of any AS in the world. in 2018, there are 700 thousand routing entries in FULL-routes, and it keeps growing. It will stop growing…
