At 07:58 PM 3/26/2002 -0500, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 07:31:52PM -0500, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
Are we talking AS_Path attributes here? If so, all this means is that now we don't announce OTHER BACKBONE routes to C&W/EXODUS, which we probably weren't doing anyway.
Actually, it also mean a reduction in the possible paths presented to my router for computation. Some would say this is a good thing. Me, I like having multiple choices / redundancy. Better to have two ways to get to EXDS than one. IMHO, of course.
In my experience, the odds of any given path sucking are far greater than the odds of that path going away. Therefore I would rather have one path which doesn't suck than two paths which may.
So would I. Doubt anyone would rather have two sucky paths than one good one. However, in my experience, I would rather have to chose between me -> EXDS and me -> upstream -> EXDS, than be forced to use me -> upstream -> C&W.
Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras
-- TTFN, patrick