The knowhow for BGP in that environment is all of about 30 minutes worth of training. They should find a way to get it, IMHO.
Owen On Oct 4, 2010, at 10:56 PM, Jonathon Exley wrote: > It also scales better from the SP point of view. If you have 1000 L3VPN > services on your PE node using OSPF to the customer that would require a lot > of memory for the multiple LSDBs and a lot of CPU for the SPF calculations. > BGP is nicer but the reality is that many enterprises don't have the > know-how. > > Jonathon > > -----Original Message----- > From: Heath Jones [mailto:hj1...@gmail.com] > Sent: Saturday, 2 October 2010 12:39 a.m. > To: Tim Franklin > Cc: nanog@nanog.org > Subject: Re: RIP Justification > > On 1 October 2010 12:19, Tim Franklin <t...@pelican.org> wrote: >> Or BGP. Why not? > > Of course, technically you could use almost any routing protocol. > OSPF and IS-IS would require more configuration and maintenance, BGP even > more still. > > I think this is a pretty good example though of how RIPv2 is probably the > most appropriate for the job. It doesnt require further configuration from > the provider side as new sites are added and is very simple to set up and > maintain. > > This email and attachments: are confidential; may be protected by > privilege and copyright; if received in error may not be used,copied, > or kept; are not guaranteed to be virus-free; may not express the > views of Kordia(R); do not designate an information system; and do not > give rise to any liability for Kordia(R). >
