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Re: multihoming without BGP
From: randy () psg com (Randy Bush)
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 97 08:32 PDT
In general, I agree with what you have been saying these last days, but try to refrain from mee-too-isms. But ...
While BGP is a fine way to route packets, it's a horrid way to select paths for connections.
Either this statement is confused, I am, or both. BGP is one way to get data into forwarding tables so that forwarding engines can route packets. As you go on to knock BGP for how it makes path decisions, the above sentence becomes indigestible. But anyway, the underlying problem is that BGP concentrates on policy, while good IGPs concentrate on efficient use of paths. An underlying assumption may have been that ASx can/should not know the internals of ASy. There have been proposals for BGP modifications and for other EGPs which address the need for more path optimization in EGPs. But this is NANOG, not IDR.
That's two folks who have come out today and said "well that's no damn good" without trying it. I'm surprised, NANOG members usually have a more positive attitude.
Do you subscribe to a different NANOG list than I? randy
Current thread:
- Re: multihoming without BGP Paul A Vixie (Jun 10)
- Re: multihoming without BGP Robert E. Seastrom (Jun 11)
- Re: multihoming without BGP Randy Bush (Jun 11)
- Re: multihoming without BGP Paul A Vixie (Jun 11)
- Re: multihoming without BGP Dana Hudes (Jun 13)
- Re: multihoming without BGP Marc Slemko (Jun 13)
- Re: multihoming without BGP Paul A Vixie (Jun 13)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: multihoming without BGP Rodney Joffe (Jun 11)
- Re: multihoming without BGP Vadim Antonov (Jun 11)