Default routes on BGP routers with full feeds

[blake at ispn.net (Blake Hudson)]

I often opt to leave one or more default routes configured with low 
priority (lower than BGP). The thinking is that if there is a fault with 
BGP, the router will still operate and the fault can be corrected 
remotely (in-band). The downside is that I might pass traffic for 
non-existing destinations an additional hop and put the load of 
generating an ICMP unreachable on someone else's router.

--Blake


Berry Mobley wrote on 11/4/2014 11:47 AM:
> I'm wondering how many of you who are multihomed also add default 
> routes pointing to your providers from whom you are receiving full feeds.
>
> If so, why? If not, why not?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Berry
>