[c-nsp] BGP default vs BGP full

Brian Wallingford brian at meganet.net
Fri May 20 18:06:20 EDT 2016


If you only have a single egress, there's no real advantage to taking a full table unless you are interested in using it as a learning tool.  By simply using a default, you'll save loads of memory, as well as CPU should you drop the connection during, e.g., maintenance. 

Cheers,
Brian

> On May 20, 2016, at 5:14 PM, Satish Patel <satish.txt at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Just wonder what would be the advantage and disadvantage of running
> BGP full vs default route.
> 
> We have single ISP connection and ISP decided to just run default
> route over BGP instead full.
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