I'm not argueing that at all. But it wasn't relevent to the question at hand. And depending on the scale of your business dumping providers is not something done on a whim. It's not like your fed up with DSL and want to convert to Cable.
-Hammer- "I was a normal American nerd." -Jack Herer On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Bret Clark <bcl...@spectraaccess.com>wrote: > On 02/22/2011 12:23 PM, Hammer wrote: > >> As Max stated, you can set triggers based on thresholds that are monitered >> via multiple methods in Cisco IOS. That way you could force the route down >> dynamically. There's always a risk when letting the machines do the >> thinking >> but this would help in situations like this. Can't speak for other vendors >> but I'm sure the features are similar. >> >> Well as someone else stated, if an upstream provider can't provide BGP > reliably then it's time to give them the boot. Once in a year, okay, but > beyond that, then it's time to read riot act with that provider. > Bret > >