[126568] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Mikrotik BGP Question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Morrow)
Fri May 21 10:54:05 2010
In-Reply-To: <4BF67B36.3060507@foobar.org>
Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 10:52:23 -0400
From: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
To: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 8:23 AM, Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org> wrote:
> On 21/05/2010 13:16, Lorell Hathcock wrote:
> each other. =A0Just make sure your boxes have enough RAM to cope with a f=
ull
> dfz feed.
note that you do NOT have to have a full feed on either location, if
your goal is simply primary/backup links... getting default from both
providers and sending your prefixes out to both (potentially
preferring one with an intentionally longer aspath, or other normal
tricks/config) will accomplish primary/backup just fine.
Don't use a sledghammer when a push pin works.
-chris
