[161595] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Is multihoming hard? [was: DNS amplification]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jared Mauch)
Wed Mar 20 15:39:59 2013
From: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
In-Reply-To: <70C736A0-38E8-41C1-B228-6BFB8B23C215@hopcount.ca>
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 15:39:53 -0400
To: Joe Abley <jabley@hopcount.ca>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Mar 20, 2013, at 11:39 AM, Joe Abley <jabley@hopcount.ca> wrote:
> I think it's incorrect to insist that the Network doesn't support =
pervasive end-site multi-homing when it's clear that people are doing it =
anyway.
I know some small WISPs that balance multiple business DSL links using =
some of these things. Their boxes are interesting when it comes to the =
amount of state they hold and how they route those load balanced links.
They auto-failover when a link stops working which is nice. If you have =
one of the static IPs you are obviously bound to that line.
I'm surprised nobody here is posting how they use their 3G/LTE USB modem =
in a SRX or Cisco router and run BGP over that. (I'm sure someone =
on-list has done it).
- Jared=
