From: Jason Gardiner (gardiner@xxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Fri Mar 08 2002 - 13:38:08 GMT-3
A little tough for a customer, since ARIN will not assign them an ASN unless
they are homed to two different providers.
On Friday 08 March 2002 11:35, Joseph Ezerski wrote:
> To add to this, we have two different connections to the same ISP. We
> definitely need BGP because we set the MED to influence how traffic returns
> into our network. This gives us some measure of redundancy. Without BGP
> it would not be as easily implemented.
>
> The right tool for the job, I always say.
>
> -Joe
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com]On Behalf Of
> Jason Gardiner
> Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 8:10 AM
> To: McCallum, Robert; 'Ccielab' (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: WHY BGP
>
>
> 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
> > Data Network Engineer
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> >
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> > still come out completely dry. Most people do."
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