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BGP failure analysis and recommendations

Subject: BGP failure analysis and recommendations
From: bross at pobox.com (Brandon Ross)
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 12:00:07 -0400 (EDT)
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On Thu, 24 Oct 2013, Christopher Morrow wrote:

>> Um, how about, don't buy services from network providers that fail in this
>> way?
>
> I suppose the question is: "how would you know that any particular
> network had this failure mode?"

Ask detailed questions about how their network is architected.  Do they 
use eBGP multihop anywhere?  Do they use BFD on internal Ethernet links? 
Do they put their peering links in their IGP, or directly into iBGP?

> until, of course, you run into it... as jrc did...

That too.

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References:
- BGP failure analysis and recommendations
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- BGP failure analysis and recommendations
  - From: morrowc.lists at gmail.com (Christopher Morrow)
- BGP failure analysis and recommendations
  - From: bross at pobox.com (Brandon Ross)
- BGP failure analysis and recommendations
  - From: morrowc.lists at gmail.com (Christopher Morrow)

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