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[NANOG] Multihoming for small frys?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Herrin)
Tue May 20 15:07:37 2008
Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 15:07:17 -0400
From: "William Herrin" <herrin-nanog@dirtside.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Hi folks,
An administrative question about multihoming:
I have a client who needs to multihome with multiple vendors for
reliability purposes, currently in the Northern Virginia area and
later on with a fail-over site, probably in Hawaii. They have only a
very modest need for bandwidth and addresses (think: T1's and a few
dozen servers) but they have to have BGP multihoming and can afford to
pay for it.
The last I heard, the way to make this happen was: Find a service
provider with IP blocks available in ARIN's set of /8's that permit
/24 announcements (networks 199, 204-207), buy a circuit and request a
/24 for multihoming. Then buy circuits from other providers using that
ISP's /24 and an AS# from ARIN.
Is that still the way to make it happen? Are there alternate
approaches (besides DNS games) that I should consider?
Who should I talk to? Certain well-known companies seem incapable of
discussing service that isn't cookie-cutter.
Thanks,
Bill Herrin
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