Re: Exodus/C&W Depeering

["Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick () ianai net>]

At 07:58 PM 3/26/2002 -0500, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
>On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 07:31:52PM -0500, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
>>
>> >Are we talking AS_Path attributes here?  If so, all this means
>> >is that now we don't announce OTHER BACKBONE routes to C&W/EXODUS,
>> >which we probably weren't doing anyway.
>>
>> Actually, it also mean a reduction in the possible paths presented to my
>> router for computation.  Some would say this is a good thing.  Me, I like
>> having multiple choices / redundancy.  Better to have two ways to get to
>> EXDS than one.  IMHO, of course.
>
>In my experience, the odds of any given path sucking are far greater than
>the odds of that path going away. Therefore I would rather have one path
>which doesn't suck than two paths which may.

So would I.  Doubt anyone would rather have two sucky paths than one good one.

However, in my experience, I would rather have to chose between me -> EXDS 
and me -> upstream -> EXDS, than be forced to use me -> upstream -> C&W.


>Richard A Steenbergen <ras () e-gerbil net>       http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras

--
TTFN,
patrick