On Mar 20, 2013, at 1:43 PM, Matthew Walster <matthew@walster.org> wrote:
On 20 March 2013 17:30, Mike <mike-nanog@tiedyenetworks.com> wrote:
I appreciate everyones comments on this issue but I think you nay-sayers are going to lose. I think the future of the internet is distributed routing where the end points ultimately decide how their packets flow.
You have actually *heard* of BGP version 4, right? We've only been using it for 20 years, you'd have thought people would switch to it in their masses...
What's interesting is I see more people (eg: datacenter operators) pushing for BGP in their devices, and scale in them because it is well fed and maintained vs trusting/using OSPF/CLNS/ISIS and getting the performance limits there fixed. They would rather use the TCP timeouts vs OSPF timeouts for link discovery and routing performance. This tells me there is perhaps a gap in capabilities or performance that isn't well documented and being worked around. - Jared