Re: Dual Homed BGP

[Ben Cannon <ben () 6by7 net>]

Honestly, this.  Your only real choice is what of 2 pipes to chuck it out of.

Full tables vs partial and a default don’t make the process much more intelligent for 1 site dual homed, and as 
mentioned routing policy will have more influence.

-Ben

> On Jan 24, 2020, at 8:47 AM, Mel Beckman <mel () beckman org> wrote:
>
> It’s pretty pointless for a small ISP to get full routes, because the BGP tables are so highly manipulated. It’s 
> better to just get “company” routes for each upstream, and then use your own traffic engineering via prepending and 
> static or policy routes to balance the outbound traffic the way you like. 
>
> -mel 
>
> > On Jan 24, 2020, at 8:40 AM, Brian <brian.bsi () gmail com> wrote:
> >
> > 
> > Hello all. I am having a hard time trying to articulate why a Dual Home ISP should have full tables. My 
> > understanding has always been that full tables when dual homed allow much more control. Especially in helping to 
> > prevent Async routes.
> >
> >
> > Am I crazy?