From: Mannan Venkatesan (mv70@xxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Fri Mar 08 2002 - 13:10:49 GMT-3
Here is what come up with,
1. When you have multiple exit points to outside.
2. When you have multiple providers.
3. If you want to control what to adverise to outside world.
Mannan
----- Original Message -----
From: "McCallum, Robert" <Robert.McCallum@let-it-be-thus.com>
To: "'Ccielab' (E-mail)" <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 10:25 AM
Subject: WHY BGP
> 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
>
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