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Re: multi homing pressure
From: Mike Tancsa <mike () sentex net>
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 13:36:38 -0400
At 11:59 AM 19/10/2005, Elmar K. Bins wrote:
tv () duh org (Todd Vierling) wrote: > Tier-2s should be given much more credit than they typically are in > write-ups like this. When a customer is single homed to a tier-2 that has > multiple tier-1 upstreams, and uses a delegated netblock from the tier-2's > aggregations, that means one less ASN and one or more less routes in the > global table. That's the operators' view, but not the customer's. The customer wants redundancy.
The customer wants reliability and BGP is not necessarily the way for them to do it. Telling a typical corporate IT department with generalized IT skills (read no large Internetworking experience) to now become BGP masters will only open up a news ways to disrupt their network connectivity. There are better ways to do it as you describe below.
So we should try to find a way to tell them "Hey, it's mostly Tier-1's (or wannabes) that play such games, stick to a trustworthy Tier-2. And, hey, btw., connect redundantly to them, so you have line failure resiliency and also a competent partner that cares for everything else."
Agreed!---Mike
Current thread:
- Re: multi homing pressure, (continued)
- Re: multi homing pressure Mark Radabaugh (Oct 19)
- Re: multi homing pressure Patrick W. Gilmore (Oct 19)
- RE: multi homing pressure Peter Kranz (Oct 19)
- RE: multi homing pressure Ejay Hire (Oct 21)
- Re: multi homing pressure Todd Vierling (Oct 19)
- Re: multi homing pressure Owen DeLong (Oct 19)
- Re: multi homing pressure Jon Lewis (Oct 19)
- Re: multi homing pressure Owen DeLong (Oct 19)
- Re: multi homing pressure Jon Lewis (Oct 19)
- Re: multi homing pressure Paul Vixie (Oct 19)
- Re: multi homing pressure Mike Tancsa (Oct 19)
- Re: multi homing pressure Elmar K. Bins (Oct 19)
- Re: multi homing pressure Patrick W. Gilmore (Oct 19)
- Re: multi homing pressure Elmar K. Bins (Oct 19)
- Re: multi homing pressure Patrick W. Gilmore (Oct 19)
- Re: multi homing pressure Elmar K. Bins (Oct 19)
- Re: multi homing pressure Owen DeLong (Oct 19)
- Re: multi homing pressure Elmar K. Bins (Oct 20)
- Re: multi homing pressure Owen DeLong (Oct 20)
- Re: multi homing pressure Elmar K. Bins (Oct 20)
- Re: multi homing pressure Owen DeLong (Oct 20)