[120417] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Routing to multiple uplinks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Berkman)
Sat Dec 19 03:47:46 2009
From: "Scott Berkman" <scott@sberkman.net>
To: "'rodrick brown'" <rodrick.brown@gmail.com>, <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <D774B787-4A89-4104-BF85-6750D73D1457@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2009 03:45:21 -0500
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Anycast?
http://www.nanog.org/meetings/nanog29/abstracts.php?pt=NjcxJm5hbm9nMjk=&nm=n
anog29
Might need to know a little more about the layout here for a better answer.
-Scott
-----Original Message-----
From: rodrick brown [mailto:rodrick.brown@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 7:47 PM
To: nanog@nanog.org list
Subject: Routing to multiple uplinks
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.
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.
I believe my only option here is to setup multiple default routes with
a preferred path of some sort. This seems to be possible using ip
route2 on Linux.
This just seems wrong on many levels and I thought I would post here
because I know there is something obvious I'm missing.
Please clue me in.
Thanks.
Sent from my iPhone 3GS.