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BGP Design question.

Subject: BGP Design question.
From: owen at delong.com (Owen DeLong)
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 12:21:03 -0700
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On Jun 23, 2011, at 6:59 AM, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:

> On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 07:44:33 CDT, -Hammer- said:
>> Agreed. At an enterprise level, there is no need to risk extended 
>> downtime to save a buck or two. Redundant hardware is always a good way 
>> to keep Murphy out of the equation. And as far as hardware failures go, 
>> it's not that common. Nowadays it's the bugs in overly complicated code 
>> on your gear that get you first. I miss IOS 11.3.....
> 
> So what you're saying is we're more likely to take an outage due to tripping
> over a bug, so we should go for the simplest non-crossover config to minimize
> the chances of hitting a bug. ;)

It's certainly worthy of consideration.

Owen

References:
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- BGP Design question.
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- BGP Design question.
  - From: paul4004 at gmail.com (PC)
- BGP Design question.
  - From: hank at efes.iucc.ac.il (Hank Nussbacher)
- BGP Design question.
  - From: bret at getjive.com (Bret Palsson)
- BGP Design question.
  - From: bhmccie at gmail.com (-Hammer-)
- BGP Design question.
  - From: Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu (Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu)

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