more specific routes in today reality

On Tue, 9 Oct 2001, Sabri Berisha wrote:

> On Tue, 9 Oct 2001, Jan-Ahrent-Czmok wrote:
> 
> > "if" you have a default route. Default route if multi-homed is surely
> > bad IMHO.
> 
> Not necessarily. If you are multi-homed for redundancy reasons and have a
> small linux box with zebra your memory would be exhausted carrying to full
> route feeds. Two single default routes are far more efficient: at home I

Well, not exactly, 128 Meg can carry 2 full feeds, triple that and
you have no worries.


> have cable and dsl. I have 2 tunnels to two different routers of my
> work. Over those tunnels I announce a /28 (which is aggregated to a /19)
> and receive two default routes. My dsl is faster so that has a higher
> local pref. If that goes down, the route switches over to the cable
> tunnel.
> 
> 

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	/Fredrik

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