[119193] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BGP Peer Selection Considerations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Seth Mattinen)
Mon Nov 9 14:58:13 2009
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:57:17 -0800
From: Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <3c3e3fca0911091110v7dc7823crba12803ac64e407b@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
William Herrin wrote:
>
> Be aware that provider A's diverse network for provider A's service is
> the same diverse network they'll use to connect you to provider B. As
> a result, many or most of the outages which impact provider A will
> also impact your connectivity to provider B, defeating the central
> purpose of having a provider B.
>
I'll just add to the OP: you want them independent *to you* not
internally diverse between themselves. How would that help your site be
independent? I'm sure the billing/support sounds attractive (and they
get to upsell you), but you won't gain provider independence, only a
larger bill.
~Seth
