[139442] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Implementations/suggestions for Multihoming IPv6 for DSL sites
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Fri Apr 8 03:29:33 2011
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTimM5ovr+HwLHct5thfj4mDf3JORGw@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 00:27:12 -0700
To: Tom Limoncelli <tal@whatexit.org>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Apr 7, 2011, at 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.
>>=20
>=20
> 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.
>=20
I have one DSL and one Cable. Neither the DSL provider nor Comcast
will do BGP. I do BGP just fine without them doing BGP.
Owen
