[WISPA] BGP Engineering

[Matt Liotta]

Mike Hammett wrote:
> They don't route at all anywhere and have no intention of it.
> 
That doesn't make any sense. If you are buying DIA then they need to 
route everywhere.

> I was getting ready to get my own ASN so I could bring in a second 
> upstream for the redundancy and increased performance that BGP 
> provides.  I don't yet have my own block as I can't yet justify 
> something that big.
> 
While you do get redundancy out of BGP you don't necessarily get 
increased performance. Depending on who you BGP peer with you could 
actually decrease your performance if you don't know what you are doing.

I'm not sure what kind of great deal you have worked out, but if your 
upstream isn't routing you correctly then it might not be a worthwhile deal.

-Matt