Some doubts on large scale BGP/AS design and black hole routing risk

[mark.tinka at seacom.mu (Mark Tinka)]

On 4/Apr/16 14:58, Christopher Morrow wrote:

>
> ?so (as bill points out) plan to localize subnets to each pop. (do not
> number customers in pop1 in the same /24 as customers in pop2)?

Yes.

May lead to some global de-aggregation, but can't really avoid that.


>
> ?be aware of gre / ip-in-ip forwarding limitations?

I wouldn't touch it, myself.

I'd rather devote the sleepless nights to fixing the backhaul.


>
>
> ?different providers, different entrance facilities in the
> building(s), different conduits out of the area... and hope that
> somewhere along the path providerA and B didn't share conduit or
> capacity-swap you to a single path :)?

+1.

Mark.