[166437] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BGP failure analysis and recommendations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brandon Ross)
Thu Oct 24 12:02:43 2013
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 12:00:07 -0400 (EDT)
From: Brandon Ross <bross@pobox.com>
To: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAL9jLabrAa=i50mxfM9wBDW_q=mdpaSu0t2oSm9U87ACwXi9tw@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: JRC NOC <nospam-nanog@jensenresearch.com>, nanog list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Thu, 24 Oct 2013, Christopher Morrow wrote:
>> Um, how about, don't buy services from network providers that fail in this
>> way?
>
> I suppose the question is: "how would you know that any particular
> network had this failure mode?"
Ask detailed questions about how their network is architected. Do they
use eBGP multihop anywhere? Do they use BFD on internal Ethernet links?
Do they put their peering links in their IGP, or directly into iBGP?
> until, of course, you run into it... as jrc did...
That too.
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