[142378] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BGP Design question.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Thu Jun 23 15:26:31 2011
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <41968.1308837540@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 12:21:03 -0700
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jun 23, 2011, at 6:59 AM, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 07:44:33 CDT, -Hammer- said:
>> Agreed. At an enterprise level, there is no need to risk extended=20
>> downtime to save a buck or two. Redundant hardware is always a good =
way=20
>> to keep Murphy out of the equation. And as far as hardware failures =
go,=20
>> it's not that common. Nowadays it's the bugs in overly complicated =
code=20
>> on your gear that get you first. I miss IOS 11.3.....
>=20
> So what you're saying is we're more likely to take an outage due to =
tripping
> over a bug, so we should go for the simplest non-crossover config to =
minimize
> the chances of hitting a bug. ;)
It's certainly worthy of consideration.
Owen
