On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 08:47:14AM -0500, Clue Store wrote: > 99% of all of our customer CPE is not managed by the customer, so that > leaves it up to me to decide what to run to them.
And then you run into the customer who thinks it's better to use a CPE of his own, breaks into the CPE to read your config and hooks up his own device with his own config... and suddenly you have Problems[tm]. I've seen it happening, more than once. > The only issue with using > ebgp is getting enough of my staff that actually understand bgp to the > point where they can deploy it themselves without having to get me involved > on every install. Am I alone in my view that BGP is _far_ more simple and straight-forward than OSPF (except in salary negotiations of course *G*)? Especially if you leave "plain simple area 0". Or if you have to protect from external parties. With BGP prefix-filtering, things are easy and obvious. > We are moving to a new NOC so this network will get a fresh start (new > 7513-sup720, few m10i's, and a dozen or so 7200vxr's). So my deployment > strategy will be ebgp with multihmed customers. I just had to poke the fire > so I had some ammo for upper management when they ask why I decide to go > ebgp. :-) Best regards, Daniel -- CLUE-RIPE -- Jabber: [email protected] -- d...@ircnet -- PGP: 0xA85C8AA0
