[119141] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Failover how much complexity will it add?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Seth Mattinen)
Sun Nov 8 16:53:48 2009
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:53:17 -0800
From: Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <63854.1257713698@baklawasecrets.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
adel@baklawasecrets.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for the info on UKNOF. I've started a thread there with regards to RIPE and obtaining ASN numbers and so on., as
> this is I guess quite UK specific.
>
You will need an AS number regardless of what path you get your
addresses from to multihome. In ARIN land the minimum for a multihomed
end-site is /22, so if I were to do this here, I would ask one of the
upstreams for a /24. I don't know the first thing about RIPE policy.
~Seth
