From owner-freebsd-net Thu Jul 27 6:45:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from rapidnet.com (rapidnet.com [205.164.216.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E67F337B8FC for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 06:45:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nick@rapidnet.com) Received: from localhost (nick@localhost) by rapidnet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA91573; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 07:45:03 -0600 (MDT) Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 07:45:03 -0600 (MDT) From: Nick Rogness To: Paul Herman Cc: Albert Chin-A-Young , freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Routing help In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Paul Herman wrote: > > > > Talk to your ISPs about running BGP or some other routing > > technique to advertise both netblocks to both providers. > > Is this a viable solution nowadays? I mean, anything smaller than /19 > won't get propagated to the rest of the world anyway. Also, I've never > had any luck convincing two providers to somehow work together to > solve a "small problem" like BGPing a small /24 block of addresses > with their so called "competition" (at least here in Europe, anyway.) > > Perhaps, it's different in the US? > NO, it is not too different. It is hard to work with the upstream provider to announce anything smaller than a /24. However, some of them do run other Routing protocols that you could accomplish the same thing (In some cases) and they are usually easier to work with on that level. Or maybe he's multi-homed within the same provider... Either way, it's a pain in the butt to work with these people. Nick Rogness - Drive defensively. Buy a tank. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message