-----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of Mark Radabaugh Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 2:31 PM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: multi homing pressure
John Payne wrote:
Hrm, people keep saying that BGP is hard and takes time.
As well as my end-user-facing network responsibilities,
I also have
corporate network responsibilities here. All of our corporate hub locations are multi-homed (or soon will be)... and I honestly can't remember the last time I made any changes (besides IOS upgrades) to BGP configs for the 2 hubs in the US. (We're moving
locations in the "international" hubs and taking new
If only I'd had the foresight to configure the all of the customers I've setup on BGP with Bogon filters, and more complex routing policies than defaults + provider customer routes, then I would have made mountains of recurring revenue from this "maintenance", and I would be reading this thread in my mountain cabin with beleaguered amusement. Alas, I met the customers requirement, it has to "just work"... And it does. (and yes, on the network I administer at my day job, I bogon/rpf filter and aggressively traffic engineer.) -ejay physical providers, so
I'm discounting those changes as you'd have similar changes in a single homed statically routed move).
If you don't have multihoming requirements other than availability then it really can be fire and forget.
Except for those pesky bogon filters.... which corporations seem to like to "fire and forget".
-- Mark Radabaugh
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