[c-nsp] downlink bgp interconnect best practices

[Vitkovsky, Adam]

Right
I believe protecting for one element failure at a time is just enough

adam
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From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net [mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Mark Tinka
Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2011 6:00 PM
To: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
Cc: Gert Doering
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] downlink bgp interconnect best practices

On Tuesday, May 31, 2011 09:28:57 PM Gert Doering wrote:

> (Interestingly enough, a few years ago I built a customer
> setup that did not have this link, because I said "well,
> there's two switches here, with two power supplies, two
> supervisors, 2x GE link bundles, this is just not
> needed" and the customer *insisted* on having the extra
> link there "just in case"...  :-) )

Some folk are addicted to all the redundancy and the "in 
case" they can eat :-). It's easy to interconnect anything 
to form rings, meshes, rectangles and triangles, infinitely.

It's much harder to say, "Right, I think too much redundancy 
will add complexity, this is enough :-)"

Mark.