more specific routes in today reality
Kurt Erik Lindqvist KPNQwest kurtis at kpnqwest.net
Mon Oct 15 13:37:17 CEST 2001
> > So do I (at least in this little part of the thread, which I haven't > > had the opportunity to follow at all length). For example, a provider-wide > > routing (or performance, or whatever) problem would be your problem if > > homed only to that one provider. > > > If it is a outage and you are running BGP you will need to wait for your > router to converge. In worst case you will be dragged into the routing > problems. However, I agree with Randy that 90% of outages are due to > local-tail problems. > > I agree that two links to two operators are more reliable, but the real > questions are if they are enough MORE reliable to justify the extra > routes, and if so how do we implement this? And this should be a general > solution all the way down to the residential users... > > I am not conviced that having multiple upstreams for entrprises, SOHO, > residentials or even small ISPs are worth it. Oh, and BTW. I do think that in the long run we need to address this (among other things) one way to the other, but I don't think that todays routing technologies will scale for it. - kurtis -
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