Re: your mail

Alex Rubenstein (alex@nac.net)
Tue, 24 Sep 1996 11:02:20 -0400

>I've only briefly read about BGP...but isn't this what BGP multi-hop is
>for? i.e. the BSD box running gated acts as your router and speaks BGP to
>the remote end of each of your T1's.

Only problem is that the router in between has to know about the networks
also.. other wise the BSD box will try to send a packet to the 'end of one
of your T's' and the in-between router will say "Huh? Where the hell is this
packet going?".

Best bet: If you are multihomed, grab a Cisco 2501, stick a 4x36 in it, and
take routes from on of the NSPs. Then default out to the other. Fairly easy,
and takes less than .5 Megs of RAM:

BGP table version is 18319, main routing table version 18319
889 network entries (889/1778 paths) using 154500 bytes of memory
98 BGP path attribute entries using 11408 bytes of memory
0 BGP route-map cache entries using 0 bytes of memory
0 BGP filter-list cache entries using 0 bytes of memory

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