At 07:44 AM 8/17/96 -0400, Curtis Villamizar wrote:
From a purely pragmatic standpoint, what good is having a dual homed prefix if Sprint and other major providers drops your prefix and you can't get to places? Better to number into one of the provider's aggregates. The more specific will go to everyone willing to take it and anyone not willing to take the more specific can still get there.
Well, that was my point, in a roundabout way. :-) This is a Catch-22. - paul
In message <199608171151.EAA06450@lint.cisco.com>, Paul Ferguson writes:
At 07:44 AM 8/17/96 -0400, Curtis Villamizar wrote:
From a purely pragmatic standpoint, what good is having a dual homed prefix if Sprint and other major providers drops your prefix and you can't get to places? Better to number into one of the provider's aggregates. The more specific will go to everyone willing to take it and anyone not willing to take the more specific can still get there.
Well, that was my point, in a roundabout way. :-)
This is a Catch-22.
- paul
The answer is clearly to number into an aggregate if you are dual homed. Sprint will take the aggregate and at least have one path to your prefix, very likely two if your two providers exchange your more specific route between each other. It is not a catch-22. Numbering into one of the provider's aggregates is a clear win. Curtis
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