[ietf79-tech] default route?

[Joel Jaeggli]

On 10/12/10 9:26 PM, Xiaoliang Zhao wrote:
>     I am bit mystified as to how get default from two providers and picking
>     yourself is better or simpler than taking full tables from both
>     providers and letting best path selection sort it out.
> 
> 
> 2x 0/0 looks a lot better to me than 300K a.b.c.d/e :)

maybe if your cpe has 64MB of ram.

> well, as we are attempting to run a primary/backup approach, 0/0 +
> local_pref gives us more control and predictability, again, that's my view.

what you get from your upstreams has some rather important utility value
if we wanted to spray and pray we could have gotten away with with a
much more modest cpe. soon a you layer in couple of tunnels you'll want
the luxury of being able to discriminate.

> thanks,
> Leon
>