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RE: BGP multihoming question.


From: "George Bonser" <gbonser () seven com>
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 09:24:24 -0800



-----Original Message-----
From: Bret Clark 
Sent: Friday, December 10, 2010 7:08 AM
To: nanog () nanog org
Subject: Re: BGP multihoming question.

On 12/10/2010 10:01 AM, Dylan Ebner wrote:
3. You cannot trust the second isp to advertise the SWIP block
correctly if they are not a tier 1. Even though they may advertise it
for you to their upstream, they don't always have the appropriate
procedures in place to get the LOAs to the upstream so your block just
gets filtered out.



Just got done battling this exact issue with one of our upstream
peers...caused a lot of headaches for us.

Proper registration in a routing registry helps, too.



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