Exodus/C&W Depeering

Wed Mar 27 01:08:09 UTC 2002

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 at e-gerbil.net>       http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras

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TTFN,
patrick