Also sprach Mr. James W. Laferriere > Hello Whomever , BGP has -NO- functionality -UNTIL- you have more > than one provider . Is that part understandable ? What you say is understandable, but, unfortunately, wrong. Multiple connections to the same ISP can be arbitrated by BGP, if, for no other reason, that BGP gives you a reliable way to tell if the next hop router is alive (if it can talk BGP, it most likely can pass packets). > All you will get for your efforts is the present BGP tables that > -YOUR- provider wishes to send to you . Even just sending a default route via BGP to a customer from multiple connections can be useful. > BGP is for making routing decisions across MULTIPLE connections to > MULTIPLE providers . Hth , Indeed...that's where BGP shines most (well...let's not go there...BGP has plenty of problems, but its the best tool available for the job currently), but even running BGP to a single upstream provider can be useful. -- Jeff McAdams Email: jeffm@iglou.com Head Network Administrator Voice: (502) 966-3848 IgLou Internet Services (800) 436-4456 - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
