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RE: When will 128M not be enough?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (mike harrison)
Sun Jul 15 20:46:55 2001

Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2001 20:45:23 -0400 (EDT)
From: mike harrison <meuon@highertech.net>
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> peering with another major provider? Do you just send half of your traffic
> to that provider to nowhere? If you want fault tolerance against
> connectivity losses, you need full routes.

I tried partial... after changing which upstream provider was
my 'default route' a few times I quickly realized this was
stupid. Ram and CPU is cheap enough to make full routes, 
even on a Cisco, a VERY desirable thing. 


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