[137891] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BGP Failover Question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Wallace)
Tue Feb 22 12:17:18 2011
From: Chris Wallace <lists@iamchriswallace.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTik=GGF7OqS5nDeQTFKfuKXEfJ4pEPypHXOWOro4@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 12:17:05 -0500
To: Charles Gucker <cgucker@onesc.net>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
We are recieving full routes from both providers.
---Chris
On Feb 21, 2011, at 6:36 PM, Charles Gucker wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 4:10 PM, Chris Wallace
> <lists@iamchriswallace.com> wrote:
>> This isn't the first time we have seen this issue with our various =
providers, how can I prevent issues like this from happening in the =
future?
>=20
> Quick question, are you running with a default route from your
> provider? If so, you're better off either finding another provider,
> or upgrading the router (if necessary) to carry a full table. If
> they do something to partition their network, you will see the
> decrease in routes learned from them, provided you see those routes
> and not the default route as asked above.
>=20
> charles
