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Re: When will 128M not be enough?


From: Andy Walden <andy () tigerteam net>
Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2001 17:01:43 -0500 (CDT)


On Sun, 15 Jul 2001 jlewis () lewis org wrote:


In most cases you don't.  What pushed the client I'm thinking of to
multihome though was the C&W/PSI peering issue and the threat of similar
issues in the future.  They only had connectivity to C&W and needed to
reach networks only on PSI.  Multiple BGP peers and full routes would have
worked for them in this case.  Customer routes and multiple defaults would
likely not have worked.

True.
Of course there are multiple ways to take customer routes, one of which is
filtering. A unique situation such as the CW/PSI mess would have called
for a prefix filter tweak, which, albeit, not automatic, relatively
painless on a small scale (i.e, you don't have to change hundreds of
customer routers because they don't have the talent themselves).

andy


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