[51535] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AT&T NYC
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ralph Doncaster)
Thu Aug 29 15:08:04 2002
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 15:07:59 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ralph Doncaster <ralph@istop.com>
To: Peter van Dijk <peter@dataloss.nl>
Cc: "nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20020829185749.GA10530@dataloss.nl>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Peter van Dijk wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 01:09:54PM -0400, alex@yuriev.com wrote:
> > > Has anybody mentioned the benefits of ISIS as an IGP to them.
> > Link-state protocols are evil, and when they break, they *really* break.
> > I still do not see a compeling argument for not using BGP as your IGP.
>
> Slow convergence.
As well there is the issues of running a full iBGP mesh. I've actually
been doing it, and now that I'm about to add my 5th router, OSPF is
looking a lot better than configuring 4 more BGP sessions. I've heard
some people recommend a route-reflector, but that would mean if the
route-reflector goes down you're screwed.
-Ralph
