[c-nsp] BGP Routing Failover for multiple classes of customers

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 11:24:34PM -0700, Bruce Pinsky wrote:
> Well, it could depend on how you are achieving 1 and 2.  For example, you
> could use VRFs for each customer type.  In VRF 1, you only import
> provider_1 routes.  In VRF 2, you import all the routes from both providers
> with equal preference.  In VRF 3, you import all the routes, but local pref
> provider_1 routes.  The interfaces for each customer type are associated
> with the appropriate VRF.

Will a Sup720/3B (non XL) handle that?  A main routing table and 2-3 VRFs
with 160.000 routes each?

(The whole problem sounds to me like "fixing a broken business model 
with engineering hacks")

gert
-- 
USENET is *not* the non-clickable part of WWW!
                                                           //www.muc.de/~gert/
Gert Doering - Munich, Germany                             gert at greenie.muc.de
fax: +49-89-35655025                        gert at net.informatik.tu-muenchen.de