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Re: optimal web service (Re: BGP announcements and small providers )
From: "Matt Ranney" <mjr () ranney com>
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 13:32:16 -0800 (PST)
On Wed, 26 Feb 1997, Paul A Vixie wrote: [...]
My approach avoids the use of BGP, but not for the above stated reasons. As I said at the SF NANOG, it is hard to get transit providers to send a full BGP table, it is hard to accept it, and it would take a modified GateD that randomized destinations in order to keep BGP's path selection from leading 90% of your routes down 1/Nth of your transit providers. BGP was the wrong answer.
Were the majority of your paths going down one single provider because of a silly tie-breaker like the numeric value of the IP address of the peer, or was it because that provider had a shorter AS path? If its the latter, where's the problem? If one provider has a better path and you aren't out of bandwidth on the connection to that provider, why would you want to take a different path? -- Matt Ranney - mjr () ranney com This is how I sign all my messages. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Current thread:
- Re: BGP announcements and small providers, (continued)
- Re: BGP announcements and small providers Karl Denninger (Feb 25)
- Re: BGP announcements and small providers Tim Pozar (Feb 25)
- Re: BGP announcements and small providers David Schwartz (Feb 25)
- interface defaults again (Re: BGP announcements and small providers ) Paul A Vixie (Feb 25)
- Re: BGP announcements and small providers Alex.Bligh (Feb 25)
- Re: BGP announcements and small providers Matt Ranney (Feb 25)
- Re: BGP announcements and small providers Dean Gaudet (Feb 25)
- Re: BGP announcements and small providers Adrian Bool (Feb 26)
- Re: BGP announcements and small providers Geoff White (Feb 26)
- optimal web service (Re: BGP announcements and small providers ) Paul A Vixie (Feb 26)
- Re: optimal web service (Re: BGP announcements and small providers ) Matt Ranney (Feb 26)
- Re: optimal web service (Re: BGP announcements and small providers ) Paul A Vixie (Feb 26)
- Re: BGP announcements and small providers Karl Denninger (Feb 25)
- Re: BGP announcements and small providers Alex.Bligh (Feb 26)
- Re: BGP announcements and small providers Michael Dillon (Feb 25)
- Re: BGP announcements and small providers Tim Pozar (Feb 25)
- Re: BGP announcements and small providers Karl Denninger (Feb 26)
- Re: BGP announcements and small providers Sean Rolinson (Feb 26)
- Re: BGP announcements and small providers Michael Dillon (Feb 26)