From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Feb 20 9: 1:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from sm8.texas.rr.com (sm8.texas.rr.com [24.93.35.220]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE92237B491 for ; Tue, 20 Feb 2001 09:01:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bryanb@walls-media.com) Received: from bryanhome (cs164208-129.jam.rr.com [24.164.208.129]) by sm8.texas.rr.com (8.11.0/8.11.1) with SMTP id f1KGvBM12667 for ; Tue, 20 Feb 2001 10:57:11 -0600 From: "Bryan Bunch" To: Subject: RE: Redundancy... Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 11:01:19 -0600 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <20010219203048.A22750@stealth.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Thanks to everyone who responded to my question. I have several things to consider and all of the input has been extremely helpful. Bryan > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Bryan Bunch > Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 11:17 AM > To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Redundancy... > Sensitivity: Confidential > > > Hello All, > > I have a question on the best way to handle a situation that we > recently had. We had some pretty bad storms come through our city > (Birmingham, AL) and had the power to our offices knocked out for a > little over two days. We have been there for 3 1/2 years and this has > been the only major outage that we have experienced. We have the > standard UPS's that handle just about every power situation that we > have experienced, but obviously this time we were dead in the water. I > know the obvious answer, "get a generator", but the office we are in > that is not currently an option. I was wondering if anyone had any > opinions on what could be set up as far as co-locating some boxes at a > provider that has a generator and somehow putting routes into their > router via BGP that would 'kick in' for us in case we had another > extended power outage. This was just the first thing that popped into > my head, but obviously other people have had to address the same issue > as well. > > Thanks for any advice/thoughts on the matter. > > > Bryan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message