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RE: BGP Homing Question
From: "Michel Py" <michel () arneill-py sacramento ca us>
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 12:34:50 -0700
Patrick W Gilmore wrote: It is your netblock, you get to use it as needed.
Michel Py wrote: This is not a good reason; it might be a good excuse, but not a good reason.
Really? So if I have a /20, you are saying I cannot use it as I need to use it?
No. It's yours you can use it any way you want. What I'm saying is that nor because it's yours neither because you can use it anyway you want make you a good netizen nor guarantees any results.
You do not need to tunnel at all if your two upstreams trade downstream routes (e.g. "peer"), and the US upstream does not filter small prefixes from their peers.
Indeed, but how can you guarantee it? SNAFUs do happen, for a number of reasons you can't control. Tunneling provides some resiliency when things which are not supposed to happen do in fact pop up from time to time.
As I said in the first post, this is much more common than the alternative, so chances are it will "just work".
No argument here. Michel.
Current thread:
- Re: BGP Homing Question, (continued)
- Re: BGP Homing Question Patrick W Gilmore (Aug 27)
- Re: BGP Homing Question babylon (Aug 27)
- Re: BGP Homing Question Jared Mauch (Aug 27)
- Re: BGP Homing Question Randy Bush (Aug 30)
- Re: BGP Homing Question Joe Provo (Aug 30)
- Re: BGP Homing Question Daniel Roesen (Aug 30)
- Re: BGP Homing Question Patrick W Gilmore (Aug 27)
- Re: BGP Homing Question Patrick W Gilmore (Aug 28)