[j-nsp] Full BGP table, one provider w/ 2 routers, slow forwarding convergence

[Roland Dobbins]

On Aug 14, 2014, at 6:55 PM, Clarke Morledge <chmorl at wm.edu> wrote:

> Can I do what I need to do with some sort of BGP multipath load balancing, but with keeping my traffic engineering objectives intact?

Why are you going for failover instead of active/active?  With a failover scenario, X% of your capacity is going unused . . .

Also, why multihome into the same upstream transit provider?  A higher degree of resiliency is achieved by multihoming with multiple transit providers.

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