[120412] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Routing to multiple uplinks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Hicks)
Fri Dec 18 19:56:11 2009
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2009 00:55:18 +0000
From: Peter Hicks <peter.hicks@poggs.co.uk>
To: rodrick brown <rodrick.brown@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <D774B787-4A89-4104-BF85-6750D73D1457@gmail.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org list" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
rodrick brown wrote:
> This may be slightly off topic however I have a very unique situation
> where I need to provide two diverse paths to a major stock exchange.
> Each host may either use route A or B for any given reason to access
> this particular exchange using two distinct routers and target address.
Have you considered point-to-point circuits?
> The applicatiOn running on these hosts must only see/use one target
> address this needs to be transparent as possible. NIC bonding/teaming on
> the host side isn't a viable solution because of the latency overhead
> same goes for vrrp/hsrp.
What latency do you mean when you talk about NIC bonding and VRRP?
Peter
