[11248] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Non-ISP companies multi-homing?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Wed Jul 23 21:05:07 1997
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 20:59:29 -0400
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199707240004.RAA16489@spock.dis.cccd.edu>; from Mark Bixby <markb@spock.dis.cccd.edu> on Wed, Jul 23, 1997 at 05:04:29PM -0700
On Wed, Jul 23, 1997 at 05:04:29PM -0700, Mark Bixby wrote:
> netops writes:
> > Does anyone know of any non-ISP companies that have decided to
> > multi-home? Is this a major trend for non-ISP companies running
> > mission-critical applications on the Internet?
>
> We will be going multi-homed in about 2 weeks because the state of California
> has mandated that all community colleges sign up with 4C.net, but we don't
> want to give up our existing CERF.net connection.
Here's an interesting question: is it considered multi-homing to have
connections between an internal backbone and a commercial provider's
backbone in more than one location -- if it's the same commercial
provider?
I have in mind, particularly, people like HP.
My instincts tell me that it probably is, but I wonder what the routing
management differences might be.
Cheers,
-- jr 'if this is off-topic, reply off-list' a
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