[130487] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: RIP Justification
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Aitken)
Mon Oct 4 14:09:08 2010
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 18:08:58 +0000
From: Jeff Aitken <jaitken@aitken.com>
To: Tim Franklin <tim@pelican.org>
In-Reply-To: <7662474.71285950510272.JavaMail.root@jennyfur.pelican.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 04:28:30PM +0000, Tim Franklin wrote:
> Leaf-node BGP config is utterly trivial [...]
>
> The Enterprise guys really need to get out of the blanket "BGP is scary"
> mindset
It's not just "enterprise" mindset. Over the years I've seen a lot of
deployed gear that either didn't support BGP at all or for which it was a
significant extra cost. At least in the past this applied to many
firewalls and load-balancers, and until recently, even one of the major
CMTS vendors didn't support BGP.
I agree that edge-node BGP is simple, but finding gear that supports it
isn't necessarily so.
--Jeff
