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