Re: BGP Design question.

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

On Jun 23, 2011, at 6:59 AM, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:

> On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 07:44:33 CDT, -Hammer- said:
> > Agreed. At an enterprise level, there is no need to risk extended 
> > downtime to save a buck or two. Redundant hardware is always a good way 
> > to keep Murphy out of the equation. And as far as hardware failures go, 
> > it's not that common. Nowadays it's the bugs in overly complicated code 
> > on your gear that get you first. I miss IOS 11.3.....
>
> So what you're saying is we're more likely to take an outage due to tripping
> over a bug, so we should go for the simplest non-crossover config to minimize
> the chances of hitting a bug. ;)

It's certainly worthy of consideration.

Owen