As Max stated, you can set triggers based on thresholds that are monitered via multiple methods in Cisco IOS. That way you could force the route down dynamically. There's always a risk when letting the machines do the thinking but this would help in situations like this. Can't speak for other vendors but I'm sure the features are similar.
-Hammer- "I was a normal American nerd." -Jack Herer On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Chris Wallace <li...@iamchriswallace.com>wrote: > We are recieving full routes from both providers. > > ---Chris > > On Feb 21, 2011, at 6:36 PM, Charles Gucker wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 4:10 PM, Chris Wallace > > <li...@iamchriswallace.com> wrote: > >> This isn't the first time we have seen this issue with our various > providers, how can I prevent issues like this from happening in the future? > > > > Quick question, are you running with a default route from your > > provider? If so, you're better off either finding another provider, > > or upgrading the router (if necessary) to carry a full table. If > > they do something to partition their network, you will see the > > decrease in routes learned from them, provided you see those routes > > and not the default route as asked above. > > > > charles > > >
