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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: The Cidr Report
On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Warren Kumari, Ph.D, CCIE# 9190 wrote: > On Feb 13, 2005, at 2:31 AM, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: > > > > There are multiple reasons for deaggregation aside from 'dumb operator', > > some are even 'valid' if you look at them from the protection standpoint. > > That and the "I have 1 circuit to $good_provider and 1 circuit to > $bad_provider and the only way I can make them balance is to split my space in > half and announce more specifics out through each provider" argument. I have > also often seen people do this without announcing the aggregate because <some > undefined bad thing> will happen, usually justified with much hand-waving. > The people who do this can usually not be reasoned with.... this just reinforces the argument that they are lacking in technical savvy. i have a transit provider who i dont want to carry much traffic and i dont want to prepend my announcements.. by looking at that providers supported customer communities i just get them to prepend as they export to other major networks thus moving the main volume of the traffic to the desired ingress paths no deaggregation, no prepending.. Steve
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