Re: BGP failure analysis and recommendations

[Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists () gmail com>]

On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 3:07 AM, Brandon Ross <bross () pobox com> wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Oct 2013, Christopher Morrow wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 10:40 PM, JRC NOC
> > <nospam-nanog () jensenresearch com> wrote:
> >
> > > Have we/they lost something important in the changeover to converged
> > > mutiprotocol networks?
> > > Is there a better way for us edge networks to achieve IP resiliency in
> > > the
> > > current environment?
> >
> >
> > sadly I bet not, aside from active probing and disabling paths that
> > are non-functional.
>
>
> Um, how about, don't buy services from network providers that fail in this
> way?

I suppose the question is: "how would you know that any particular
network had this failure mode?"

until, of course, you run into it... as jrc did...