[119245] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Failover how much complexity will it add?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel Jaeggli)
Tue Nov 10 18:14:47 2009
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:13:55 +0900
From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
To: stef@memberwebs.com
In-Reply-To: <4AF9D8C5.5070009@memberwebs.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Stef Walter wrote:
> In this day of and age of wild-west, cowboy attitudes between some of
> the biggest players on the Internet, does protecting against these
> problems require a routing device that can handle multiple full routing
> tables? It would seem so...
It has been routinely observed in nanog presentations that settlement
free providers by their nature miss a few prefixes that well connected
transit purchasing ISPs carry.
If business requirements for reachability necessitate multi-homing then
carrying the tables if probably also a requirement.
joel
> Cheers,
>
> Stef
>
>
