On Fri, Sep 20, 2024 at 2:36 PM, <sro...@ronan-online.com> wrote: > Why would a single homed customer not take a default route? >
1: They are concerned about bandwidth — if a customer sends a packet and there is no global route, they can drop and not "waste" the transit bandwidth. This is actually useful in some specific niche cases. but, more likely 2: they want to feel studly. "Real" networks are default-free. Therefore, if I want to be a real network (and feel like a real network engineer), obviously I should do the same… W > On Sep 20, 2024, at 1:25 PM, Tarko Tikan <ta...@lanparty.ee> wrote: > > hey, > > Yeah, no. Provided they are singlehomed customers who generally set (or > take) a default route to that transit, they are completely fine. Their > transit knows the prefix and will use it. It gets more problematic for > multihomed customers. > > Well I have no idea why do you say that all such customers always have > default route pointed to their transit provider. If that is the case then > everything is OK ofc but you can't really take that for granted. > > -- > tarko > >
