On 3/27/11 2:53 AM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
On Mar 25, 2011, at 3:33 PM, Owen DeLong wrote:
Single AS worldwide is fine with or without a backbone.
Only if you want to make use of ugly ugly BGP hacks on your routers, or, you
don't care about Site A being
able to hear announcements from Site B.
You are highly confused.
Accepting default is not ugly, especially if you don't even have a backbone
connecting your sites. And even if we could argue over default's aesthetic
qualities (which, honestly, I don't see how we can), there is no rational
person who would consider it a hack.
You really should stop trying to correct the error you made in your first post.
Remember the old adage about when you find yourself in a hole.
Another thing to note is the people who actually run multiple discrete network
nodes posting here all said it was fine to use a single AS. One even said the
additional overhead of managing multiple ASes would be more trouble than it is
worth, and I have to agree with that statement. Put another way, there is
objective, empirical evidence that it works.
In response, you have some nebulous "ugly" comment. I submit your argument is,
at best, lacking sufficient definition to be considered useful.
And in reality, is "allowas-in" *that* horrible of a hack? If used properly, I'd say not. In a network
where you really are split up regionally with no backbone there's really little downside, especially versus
relying on default only.
-Dave
