BGP Multihoming 2 providers full or partial?

Mon Jun 1 20:28:05 UTC 2015

On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 2:40 PM, Blake Hudson <blake at ispn.net> wrote:
> A gateway of last resort, also called a backup default route, will take care
> of partitions

No, Blake, it won't. A partition means one of your ISPs has no route
to the destination. Route the packet to that ISP via a default route
and it gets sent to /dev/null. More, during a partition you don't get
to pick which of your ISPs lack the route.

Regards,
Bill Herrin

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