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At 07:58 PM 3/26/2002 -0500, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: >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. So would I. Doubt anyone would rather have two sucky paths than one good one. However, in my experience, I would rather have to chose between me -> EXDS and me -> upstream -> EXDS, than be forced to use me -> upstream -> C&W. >Richard A Steenbergen <[email protected]> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras -- TTFN, patrick
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