[nsp] HSRP and VLANs

[Sam Stickland]

Well the switch is now a single point of failure, rather than a router. Do
you have good reasons to believe that the uptime on the switch will be
considerably higher than the routers? If not then this doesn't really gain
you anything except more complicated wiring.

----- Original Message -----
From: jlewis


> On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Jason Lixfeld wrote:
>
> > Even if you have enough IP addresses, I wouldn't turn HSRP up on your
> > BGP links.  You actually gain less benefit doing that than you get by
> > having 2 sessions spread across 2 routers.
>
> That just made me wonder...if you connect to an upstream via ethernet, are
> there good reasons not to terminate your end on a switch going to 2
> routers and actually have a BGP session from each of your routers to the
> provider?  Does anyone do this?
>
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