[168948] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: carrier comparison
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Olivier Benghozi)
Fri Feb 7 05:26:16 2014
From: Olivier Benghozi <olivier.benghozi@wifirst.fr>
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Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 11:25:53 +0100
To: nanog@nanog.org
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Hi Faisal,
> You might have to deploy some other means of (script ?) to bring your =
BGP session down from the 'broken' Service Provider.
>=20
> To the best of my knowledge, BGP does not have any mechanism to =
determine broken connectivity upstream past the router you are BGP =
session is up with.
Well, technically there's BFD that might do the trick. But of course it =
won't be available; it's not usually, so specially with Cogent... :)
But maybe its link was just overloaded in fact.
--=20
Olivier
