On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 4:28 PM, Jared Mauch <[email protected]> wrote:
> Also, if you're seeing some problem, I'm sure that some other set of
> people out there will be seeing it as well.  The shared pain/cost will
> exist.  If you can't take the risk of speaking BGP, have your ISP send you
> default (or nothing) and advert your prefixes and call it a day.

There may be no shared pain if you are using BGP only within your
datacenter network.  This is precisely why I provided the RainbowPoop
scenario.  This is not your 1990s BGP anymore.  Anyone who has MPLS
VPNs signaled using BGP already knows this but maybe isn't cognizant
of it in this context.

You continue to make this argument that breaking your network so you
notice a problem is good.  I would like to have the option to notice
the problem by actually parsing my syslogs and NOT having my network
break and cost me and customers a bunch of money.  That's not what I
would really do, though.  I would just re-actively configure
ignore-bad-messages if I needed to.  Because I agree with you, I would
like BGP to flap if something unexpected happens.  However, I might
need to stop it from flapping to remain in business.

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Jeff S Wheeler <[email protected]>
Sr Network Operator  /  Innovative Network Concepts
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