Some people prefer not to use RADB so as to make their routing infrastructure less dependent on non-controllable (administratively) outside entities. As a matter of corporate politics. We already have NetSol to handle a (less critical) part of the infrastructure, thank you. --vadim
| Also, is it unreasonable to expect someone who wants to speak BGP to know | how to make entries in the RADB, or at least read and follow the
In theory, or in practice?
in theory, anyone running BGP ought understand the RADB, understand BGP (and routing in general), and be able to spell their own name.
in practice, the customer hires a consultant who is sufficiently skilled to cobble together a working BGP config from docs on the cisco website, at which point it is turned over to Mr. Pointy Hair. neither Pointy Hair nor the consultant can even spell RADB let alone ever heard of it. Pointy Hair can spell his own name. usually.
--jeff