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Originally Posted by Chrysalis
I respect the need to balance across multiple links but of course one would expect an isp to have enough excess capacity cover a route going down in an outage so the fact VM are routing people over america doesnt sit well with me I'm afraid. Using multiple routes is fine, routing people over america to holland is not. I have only had this kind of routing on an isp before once, guess who the isp was?
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ntl
nildram, entanet, aaisp, xilo, easynet, freeserve all manage to avoid it.
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It's how routing works - the more complex your links to the outside world the higher the chance of 'sub-optimal' routes being optimal according to the EGP.
ntl's network and in turn VM's have a ton of paths out of the network, loads of full table transits and multiple peering points.