From owner-freebsd-net Thu Jul 27 11:27:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.thewrittenword.com (pipe.thewrittenword.com [216.80.59.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AB3E37B798 for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 11:27:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from china@thewrittenword.com) Received: (from china@localhost) by mx1.thewrittenword.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA06398; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 13:26:23 -0500 (CDT) From: Albert Chin-A-Young Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 13:26:22 -0500 To: Paul Herman Cc: Nick Rogness , freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Routing help Message-ID: <20000727132622.C32716@postal.thewrittenword.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.1.12i In-Reply-To: ; from pherman@frenchfries.net on Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 09:19:30AM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 09:19:30AM +0200, Paul Herman wrote: > On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Nick Rogness wrote: > > > On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Albert Chin-A-Young wrote: > > > > > > Here's a question for ya, Are all networks (routeable) reachable > > > > through both ethernet cards? > > > > > > Yes. > > > > > > > What are you trying to accomplish? > > > > > > We have two different ISPs providing our internet connection, with the > > > web and ftp server multihomed (second NIC not alive yet). I want to > > > survive the case where one ISP goes dead. > > > > > > > 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? > > Of course, if Albert is indeed talking about a /19 block, then this > isn't an issue, his ISPs probably wouldn't want to lose him, and you > can forget what I just said :) If we had a /19, we'd buy a router and be done with it :) We should probably just do it though. -- albert chin (china@thewrittenword.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message