On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 09:31:51PM -0400, Jay Nakamura wrote:
Yes, I understand BFD. The question is, do carriers usually do BFD with customers? And if they say no, are there other remedies? AT&T doesn't seem to be even willing to change BGP timers. If anyone have been able to talk AT&T or Qwest in doing so, it would really help to find out how they convinced them. They are such a big bureaucracies that it's frustrating to do anything that makes sense. Although Qwest seems a lot more responsive than AT&T.
Slow as the titanic carriers won't do anything innovative for anyone, regardless of the benefit. Try a clueful carrier and they'll be happy to run BFD with you. Of course after promoting it for more than a year now we have something like 5 peers and 0 customers using it (mostly because of broken vendor implementations), but hey it's never too late to start. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)