[150981] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Questions about anycasting setup
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Elmar K. Bins)
Fri Mar 9 04:35:20 2012
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 10:34:24 +0100
From: "Elmar K. Bins" <elmi@4ever.de>
To: Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net>
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Re Bill,
woody@pch.net (Bill Woodcock) wrote:
> > Well, let's say, using Quagga/BIRD might not really be best practice for
> > everybody... (e.g., *we* are using Cisco equipment for this)
> How does your Cisco know whether an adjacent nameserver is heavily loaded, and adjust its BGP announcements accordingly?
It doesn't have to.
I don't know how you guys do it, but we take great care to
keep min. 70% overhead capacity during standard operation.
Elmar.
