That is THE question, and it really depends on how well your router can handle 
taking in the full routing table while routing customer traffic at the same 
time. Weaker Mikrotik CCR’s like the 1009 seem sluggish, while the 1036 does 
alright. It’ll pull 500,000+ routes while passing traffic in about a minute.

Chris Wright
Network Administrator
Velociter Wireless
209-838-1221 x115

From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ken Hohhof
Sent: Friday, January 22, 2016 8:13 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Single homed to multi, full partial or default route ?

Dennis, does that help the time to be back up and routing traffic after a 
router reboot or loss of connectivity?  So you start using the default route as 
soon as you get it, and then get more specific as the routing table fills?  
That’s something that I’ve heard horror stories about, taking like 15 minutes 
to be back up and running after a router reboot or a loss of connectivity to 
the BGP peer.  With a default route, I’m used to that being pretty much 
instantaneous.


From: Dennis Burgess<mailto:[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, January 22, 2016 9:52 AM
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Single homed to multi, full partial or default route ?

You have your upstream send default+full, you can discard what you don’t need, 
then if you need something, you don’t have to call them, just change your 
filters.

Dennis Burgess, CTO, Link Technologies, Inc.
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> – 314-735-0270 x103 – 
www.linktechs.net<http://www.linktechs.net/>

From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of TJ Trout
Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2016 8:15 PM
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: [AFMUG] Single homed to multi, full partial or default route ?


I'm a complete idiot and I just turned up 2 upstreams, butch Evans will be 
setting up the bgp, he said I can take full routes, partial router /20 and 
larger or default routes, anyone able to tell me the best choice and the pros 
and cons of each ?

Thanks a million

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