Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 13:26:22 -0500 From: Albert Chin-A-Young <china@thewrittenword.com> To: Paul Herman <pherman@frenchfries.net> Cc: Nick Rogness <nick@rapidnet.com>, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Routing help Message-ID: <20000727132622.C32716@postal.thewrittenword.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007270908120.545-100000@bagabeedaboo.security.at12.de>; from pherman@frenchfries.net on Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 09:19:30AM %2B0200 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007261851580.84937-100000@rapidnet.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007270908120.545-100000@bagabeedaboo.security.at12.de>
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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
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