[163754] in North American Network Operators' Group
Multihop eBGP peering or VPN based eBGP peering
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael McConnell)
Sun Jun 16 20:40:43 2013
From: Michael McConnell <michael@winkstreaming.com>
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2013 18:40:13 -0600
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Hello all,
Any idea why more companies don't offer eBGP peering / multi hop =
peering? Its very common for providers to offer single or double hop =
peering, so why not 5 or 10 hops? In many cases people find it logical =
to perform single or double hop peering, why is peering any greater =
always frowned upon. I understand the logic that you can't control the =
path beyond a point, however I still see numerous advantages.=20
One obvious advantages one is, imagine you east coast data centre and =
you had a eBGP peering session with a west coast router, you'd be able =
to control ingress via the west coast. (aka routing around an region =
outage that is effecting ingress) For example during the last hurricane =
around New Jersey, numerous tier 1's were down towards the atlantic and =
every peer for the atlantic was effected. One could have just made the =
ingress via the west coast the logical route.=20
Thoughts?
Mike
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