North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical RE[2]: Faster 'Net growth rate raises fears about routers
Irwin Lazar <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Good point, one of our customers multihomed to two different providers and > had several instances where a BGP configuration change by one of their > providers made their networks invisible to half of that provider's peers. > These types of errors take quite a while to track down and are generally > only found when the help desk gets calls that some people from around the > world can't get to internal network resources (Looking glass sites are > invaluable in these situations). Risk mitigation from these types of errors > is easy justification for multi-homing. > > Irwin Yes, and IF you live somewhere with limited physical capacity, multi-homing takes on a much different value. I buy lots of RAM and deal with it to insure what is most important. Only the experienced walk with a limp. /Dee
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