[43731] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BGP advice: Customer converting from static ISP connection to BGP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brett Frankenberger)
Thu Oct 25 18:53:57 2001
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To: rekoil@semihuman.com (Christopher A. Woodfield)
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 16:58:46 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Brett Frankenberger" <rbf@rbfnet.com>
Cc: CONWAY@pjm.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20011025182148.B16909@semihuman.com> from "Christopher A. Woodfield" at Oct 25, 2001 06:21:48 PM
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> The hard part is ensuring that the BGP prefix has propagated to the
> internet as a whole before you pull the static route and as a result the
> ISP-sourced prefix - the best thing to do is to check looking glasses
> (make sure you check several - some networks will not forward the "new"
> route if the old one has a better metric) to ensure propagation of the new
> route before you pull the static route.
Some? Which networks are propogating routes that they aren't using?
-- Brett
