Re: Tier-2 reachability and multihoming

[bmanning () vacation karoshi com]

On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 12:18:34PM -0800, Bill Woodcock wrote:
>       On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, G Pavan Kumar wrote:
>     > Actually, I am not doing what you think I am. I am using the RouteViews
>     > aggregation of the BGP routing tables. RouteViews is a project at the
>     > univ. of Oregon that peers with backbones.
>
> Really?  Could you tell us more about it?  I thought there was just one 
> Internet backbone.

        Bill...  Stop it!!!  shooting fish in a barrel is 
        no sport at all.

>     > I am looking at almost full and fresh data.
>
> So what value do you assign to "almost full?"  There's a difference 
> between "best" and "complete," which you may not be entirely appreciating.
>
>                                 -Bill

        almost full == just after dessert

        and as you (and almost every one else on this list) know,
        there is zero chance of "complete" ...  and "best" is always
        in the eye/routing-table of the beholder.

--bill