From: Jason Gardiner (gardiner@xxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Fri Mar 08 2002 - 13:09:34 GMT-3
If a customer is homed to 2 different ISPs and wants redundancy, they really
need to run BGP.
On Friday 08 March 2002 10:25, McCallum, Robert wrote:
> Question.
>
> Why would a company want BGP?
>
> In what scenarios would it be good working policy to actually sell them BGP
> instead of advertising their netblock through redistribution means and
> giving them a default route. I have struggled with this question for a
> while and I can't really come up with any hard evidence to the benefits of
> BGP for a customer.
>
> I mean what does BGP give a customer?
>
> Any thoughts welcome
>
> Robert McCallum CCIE #8757
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