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> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of > Alex Pilosov > Sent: Friday, September 15, 2000 6:31 PM > To: Dmitri Krioukov > Cc: Alex Pilosov; [email protected]; David Lott > Subject: RE: Confussion over multi-homing > > > > On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Dmitri Krioukov wrote: > > > > 2. It only protects you from failure of a link from you to > upstream, not > > > from upstream losing their connectivity, power, or flapping > like crazy and > > > getting dampened. In my experience, latter happened more > often than first. > > > :) > > > > note that "non-direct ebgp" peering on the picture can actually > be between > > e-br-a and *any* router in isp-b, not necessarily isp-br-b. > this way your > > real problem 2 is solved. > > Not really. If the 'internet defaultless core' routers drop the route to > ISP-B, then you are still completely screwed. oh, yeah. also, if isp-b gets suddenly evaporated, then i'm screwed even more... :) anyway, i think it would be safe to conclude that the answer to my initial question would be "no". > -alex -- dima.
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