[114722] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Multi-homed clients and BGP timers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Bates)
Fri May 22 21:00:16 2009
Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 19:59:56 -0500
From: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
To: Steve Bertrand <steve@ibctech.ca>
In-Reply-To: <4A1742A1.4080509@ibctech.ca>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Steve Bertrand wrote:
> Well, unfortunately, the local PUC owns the fibre, and they have a
> switch aggregating all of their fibre in a star pattern. They then trunk
> the VLANs to me across two redundant pair. I'm in the process of
> persuading them to allow me to put my own gear in their location so I
> can manage it myself (no risk of port-monitor, no risk of their ops
> fscking up my clients etc). This way, they connect from their
> client-facing converter into whatever port in my switch I tell them.
>
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't this exactly the type of situation
that BFD was designed to detect and help with?
Jack
