BGP failure analysis and recommendations

Thu Oct 24 13:21:14 UTC 2013

On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 3:07 AM, Brandon Ross <bross at pobox.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Oct 2013, Christopher Morrow wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 10:40 PM, JRC NOC
>> <nospam-nanog at jensenresearch.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Have we/they lost something important in the changeover to converged
>>> mutiprotocol networks?
>>> Is there a better way for us edge networks to achieve IP resiliency in
>>> the
>>> current environment?
>>
>>
>> sadly I bet not, aside from active probing and disabling paths that
>> are non-functional.
>
>
> Um, how about, don't buy services from network providers that fail in this
> way?
>

I suppose the question is: "how would you know that any particular
network had this failure mode?"

until, of course, you run into it... as jrc did...