I'm not argueing that at all. But it wasn't relevent to the question at hand. And depending on the scale of your business dumping providers is not something done on a whim. It's not like your fed up with DSL and want to convert to Cable. -Hammer- "I was a normal American nerd." -Jack Herer On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Bret Clark <bclark@spectraaccess.com>wrote:
On 02/22/2011 12:23 PM, Hammer wrote:
As Max stated, you can set triggers based on thresholds that are monitered via multiple methods in Cisco IOS. That way you could force the route down dynamically. There's always a risk when letting the machines do the thinking but this would help in situations like this. Can't speak for other vendors but I'm sure the features are similar.
Well as someone else stated, if an upstream provider can't provide BGP reliably then it's time to give them the boot. Once in a year, okay, but beyond that, then it's time to read riot act with that provider. Bret