[85950] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: multi homing pressure
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Todd Vierling)
Wed Oct 19 15:38:45 2005
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 15:38:15 -0400 (EDT)
From: Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org>
To: John Payne <john@sackheads.org>
Cc: "Elmar K. Bins" <elmi@4ever.de>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <D686D467-7957-4E54-881E-61B83334BDF8@sackheads.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, 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
It's not changes that make BGP maintenance consume time; rather, it's
tracking down connectivity issues when problems do arise.
If the upstream is responsible for multihoming instead, they also are
responsible for keeping the knowledge resources to do that problem-hunt.
It's another side effect of the choice to outsource the multihoming
responsibility, and is one of the factors to consider when choosing a
redundancy approach.
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-- Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org> <tv@pobox.com> <todd@vierling.name>
