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[Leonard Giuliano <>]

8 is probably overkill, and may be more hassle administratively with
little extra benefit.  I would say to use as many RPs as it takes to make
you confident that you will always have one up and running.  After all,
your network only really needs 1 to operate.  Of course, if you equally
distribute your eMSDP peering among the RPs, the loss of one will impact
fewer external peering.

Typically, between 4-8 RPs is all that is used by the largest of ISPs.

-Lenny

On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, Alan Crosswell wrote:

-) I've just converted over to three static anycast RPs which have an msdp 
mesh.  I
-) have 8 similar edge routers that cover various regions of my network.  
Should I
-) keep on going and mesh/anycast all 8 of them?
-) /a
-)