[139437] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Implementations/suggestions for Multihoming IPv6 for DSL sites
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel Jaeggli)
Thu Apr 7 23:27:59 2011
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2011 20:26:25 -0700
From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
To: Tom Limoncelli <tal@whatexit.org>
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTimM5ovr+HwLHct5thfj4mDf3JORGw@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 4/7/11 8:13 PM, Tom Limoncelli wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 10:51 PM, Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> wrote:
>> There is no need for NAT in order to multiple-home. BGP is every bit as effective and much simpler.
>>
>
> I know a lot of small businesses with one FiOS link and one Comcast
> link and I don't think they're going to be able to do BGP. Their
> providers won't do it and their prem equipment doesn't support it and
> the local IT person doesn't have the know-how to do it. I know that
> the typical NANOG member isn't in this category, but this is a
> use-case that is very common and outnumbers NANOG members.
building a cpe that can do something useful with two ip addresses and
two default routes to two consumer isps isn't really that hard, had a
cisco 2500 circa 1995 that did dial on demand for backup... heck, today
you can get a cradlepoint with 3 x 3g/4g wireless cards attached.
> Tom
>
