RIP Justification

[jaitken at aitken.com (Jeff Aitken)]

On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 04:28:30PM +0000, Tim Franklin wrote:
> Leaf-node BGP config is utterly trivial [...]
> 
> The Enterprise guys really need to get out of the blanket "BGP is scary" 
> mindset

It's not just "enterprise" mindset.  Over the years I've seen a lot of
deployed gear that either didn't support BGP at all or for which it was a
significant extra cost.  At least in the past this applied to many
firewalls and load-balancers, and until recently, even one of the major
CMTS vendors didn't support BGP.

I agree that edge-node BGP is simple, but finding gear that supports it
isn't necessarily so.


--Jeff