[47740] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BGP and aggregation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ralph Doncaster)
Sat May 11 18:19:17 2002
Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 18:18:59 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ralph Doncaster <ralph@istop.com>
To: Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net>
Cc: "nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
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> On Sat, May 11, 2002 at 05:34:39PM -0400, Ralph Doncaster wrote:
[...]
> > goes down I want each city to announce the local /21. Is this
> > possible? (using either a Cisco router or Zebra)
>
> If I was paying for transit, I would want THEM to do the work of
> delivering it to the right city, without wasting the bandwidth of my
> circuit (unless they're really close and that circuit is really cheap).
It's 2 different providers, and one is much cheaper than the
other. Therefore I want all traffic to come in through city A, unless my
circuit to city B is down.
-Ralph
