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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Exodus/C&W Depeering
On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 07:31:52PM -0500, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: > > >Are we talking AS_Path attributes here? If so, all this means > >is that now we don't announce OTHER BACKBONE routes to C&W/EXODUS, > >which we probably weren't doing anyway. > > Actually, it also mean a reduction in the possible paths presented to my > router for computation. Some would say this is a good thing. Me, I like > having multiple choices / redundancy. Better to have two ways to get to > EXDS than one. IMHO, of course. In my experience, the odds of any given path sucking are far greater than the odds of that path going away. Therefore I would rather have one path which doesn't suck than two paths which may. -- Richard A Steenbergen <[email protected]> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14 36 FE B6)
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