[117410] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Multi-homed implementation and BGP convergence time
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Weeks)
Fri Sep 11 17:09:00 2009
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:07:44 -0700
From: "Scott Weeks" <surfer@mauigateway.com>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
Reply-To: surfer@mauigateway.com
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
--- Andrew.Claybaugh@securian.com wrote:
From: Andrew.Claybaugh@securian.com
own AS number, how much downtime will there be? So far the second ISP has
only said that it could be hours for BGP to fully converge. We are looking
for more detail about how long the outage will be and how widespread.
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1) Hire someone that has done this before. There're many things to be aware of.
2) Get a different provider. Anyone that said it "could be hours for BGP to fully converge" is misleading you. Especially, if you're a new customer to them. That's a bad omen for things to come.
This can be done with very minimal impact.
scott
