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Re: solving problems instead of beating heads on walls [was: somethingabout arrogance]

  • From: Ralph Doncaster
  • Date: Sat Jul 27 13:56:19 2002

> On Sat, 27 Jul 2002, Ralph Doncaster wrote:
> 
> >
> > And your assumption about my Ottawa-Toronto link is wrong.  I have a 100M
> > point-to-point ethernet link between the cities.  I have a 100M transit
> > connection to Peer1 in Toronto, and have issued a letter of intent to a
> > transit provider in Ottawa for a 100M link.
> 
> Ralph, if you have a 100m link between the two cities, why don't you use
> conditional announcements to only announce your /20 though Ottawa if your
> primary transit in Toronto goes down? Then, you only need to announce your
> /20 in Toronto, no need to deaggregate, and the whole issue is solved.
> 
> Then, when you have the Ottawa 100m transit link up, you can announce your
> /20 to both transit providers all the time.
> 

That is roughly the intention.  I also have to be able to announce the
more specifics for when the Ottawa-Toronto link goes down.  You could find
in the archives my posts from a couple months back asking how to do this.

-Ralph