[1696] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Chiappa blows his brains out (was Re: Policy Statement)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mathew Lodge)
Mon Jan 29 20:10:04 1996
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 19:09:04 -0600
To: Scott Huddle <huddle@mci.net>
From: lodge@houston.omnes.net (Mathew Lodge)
Cc: cidrd@iepg.org, local-ir@ripe.net, nanog@merit.edu
Scott,
>You present a hard edge case that isn't particularly well met by the current
>infrastructure and it can't necessarily be done well or even done at all.
>(Sean's tricky chocolate-consulting hack excluded). Probably the best
>thing that be currently supported is getting two diverse connections to
>a single provider that can globally aggregate your network. The connections
>should go to different POPs and should follow seperate physical paths.
>This should provide you the desired reliability and load sharing.
Thank you, thank you, thank you. This is exactly the kind of pragmatic
advice I was looking for. Saying "don't do it" or "multihoming costs" is
not helpful -- this sort of answer is.
Regards,
Mathew
