[85949] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: multi homing pressure
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Radabaugh)
Wed Oct 19 15:33:17 2005
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 15:31:21 -0400
From: Mark Radabaugh <mark@amplex.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <D686D467-7957-4E54-881E-61B83334BDF8@sackheads.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
John Payne wrote:
>
> Hrm, people keep saying that BGP is hard and takes time.
>
> As well as my end-user-facing network responsibilities, I also have
> corporate network responsibilities here. All of our corporate hub
> locations are multi-homed (or soon will be)... and I honestly can't
> remember the last time I made any changes (besides IOS upgrades) to
> BGP configs for the 2 hubs in the US. (We're moving physical
> locations in the "international" hubs and taking new providers, so
> I'm discounting those changes as you'd have similar changes in a
> single homed statically routed move).
>
> If you don't have multihoming requirements other than availability
> then it really can be fire and forget.
Except for those pesky bogon filters.... which corporations seem to like
to "fire and forget".
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Mark Radabaugh
Amplex
mark@amplex.net
419.837.5015
