Greetings;
On Mon, 2014-01-27 at 15:49 -0800, K7VE - John spake:
Just my <$0.02>
If the BGP is in a 'hardened' data center then its probability of going down is greatly reduced over the random tunnel server running on a 20 year old computer in somebody's basement.
This isn't a single tunnel going to a single tunnel, our current design is that each point on the 44/8 network is a direct point to point route. The fastest route from here to there is a direct line, no matter where on 44/8 I go since I'm using a tunnel.
We have already suffered (key word!) outages because of BGP or the like based issues where areas have suffered from various reasonings (router gone bad, route fat-fingered, etc). In the commercial world this works very well but we keep insisting we're a glorified ISP here and we're servicing commercial based IP sites.
While I agree, any new piece of hardware in a "hardened" data center/NOC/etc would be a great place to house something, I'm extremely confused as to how BGP will fix/reboot/replace that old PC in someone's basement that's gone down. Will someone -=please=- explain this to me?
Now if the issue is an old gateway that's servicing a larger block running some of the high speed wifi, then it's already a flaw of those creating this network by allowing inferior equipment to host their network rather than creating a gateway at a "hardened" data center... not the fault of a tunnel.
BGP'ed regional networks provide more portals into the larger Internet and can support smaller networks via VPN and Tunnels.
My upstream already supplies BGP routes for me. If ABC internet becomes my 44-net "portal", and the path to them from my ISP goes from new england to virginia (mae east) and back up again, that's only adding a multitude of points of failure for me, where as my tunnel is more direct. [don't be surprised, a lot of that happens in this part of the country - mainly politically motivated for business competition]
IMHO our current tunnelled system with RIP is the best system we've had in the 20ish years I've been with the amprnet.