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Re: Failover how much complexity will it add?


From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja () bogus com>
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:13:55 +0900

Stef Walter wrote:
In this day of and age of wild-west, cowboy attitudes between some of
the biggest players on the Internet, does protecting against these
problems require a routing device that can handle multiple full routing
tables? It would seem so...

It has been routinely observed in nanog presentations that settlement
free providers by their nature miss a few prefixes that well connected
transit purchasing ISPs carry.

If business requirements for reachability necessitate multi-homing then
carrying the tables if probably also a requirement.

joel

Cheers,

Stef




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