Re: BGP Failover Question

[Hammer <bhmccie () gmail com>]

I'm not argueing that at all. But it wasn't relevent to the question at
hand. And depending on the scale of your business dumping providers is not
something done on a whim. It's not like your fed up with DSL and want to
convert to Cable.


 -Hammer-

"I was a normal American nerd."
-Jack Herer





On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Bret Clark <bclark () spectraaccess com>wrote:

> On 02/22/2011 12:23 PM, Hammer wrote:
>
> > As Max stated, you can set triggers based on thresholds that are monitered
> > via multiple methods in Cisco IOS. That way you could force the route down
> > dynamically. There's always a risk when letting the machines do the
> > thinking
> > but this would help in situations like this. Can't speak for other vendors
> > but I'm sure the features are similar.
> >
> > Well as someone else stated, if an upstream provider can't provide BGP
> reliably then it's time to give them the boot. Once in a year, okay, but
> beyond that, then it's time to read riot act with that provider.
> Bret