Fred R. You're obvious a pretty smart guy. Your posts here are very well structured and helpful.
Don't put so much stock in the CCNP(NA) vs. bgp. I had my ccna only a few short months, when we went to multihoming with BGP. Do you really think that the small enterprise is going to use all the advanced BGP stuff to get it working nicely (route reflectors, confeds, clusters, etc). That stuff is for REALLY big Enterprises, and Bigger ISP's. I have never had to use more than route-maps, prefix-lists and "next-hop self" to get it working smooth. Also pretty much any ISP that runs BGP itself will allow you to advertise a /24 or greater. The only argument where the block comes from. MCI (formerly wcom/uunet) Qwest Sprint ATT Winstar (now owned by IDT) all have offered /24 and bgp for T-1 service. Several I use now. BGP for multihoming, load-balancing, and pretty much whatever else at the enterprise level is very basic and easy to design, setup and even troubleshoot. 1 thing I have always liked alot are the networkers "troubleshooting BGP and design" powerpoint files they put out ever year. Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=75207&t=75207 -------------------------------------------------- **Please support GroupStudy by purchasing from the GroupStudy Store: http://shop.groupstudy.com FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html
