[4927] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Need hints on proper default route selection
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Zeeff)
Wed Oct 2 14:13:21 1996
From: jon@branch.com (Jon Zeeff)
To: generous@uucom.com (Curtis Generous)
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 1996 14:08:14 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199610021735.NAA01818@rolex.uucom.com> from "Curtis Generous" at Oct 2, 96 01:35:46 pm
BGP done right requires a full duplex connection to be up. So this is ok.
> [] Point default to NSP #1
> [] Take internal routes from NSP #2
> [] Have a second, lower pref default to NSP #2
> Recently, we have been bitten by failures on our 10mbit link to NSP #1
> (default) where the ethernet-lookalike link between us became
> uni-directional (common netedges failure mode). This failure was not
Of couse it won't help you if your provider can't correctly send a
default only when he has a proper default.
