[186439] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: failover via comcast tunnel?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Hoppes)
Thu Dec 17 16:15:04 2015
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From: Matt Hoppes <mhoppes@indigowireless.com>
In-Reply-To: <22131.8886.119084.674737@pcls8.std.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2015 16:15:01 -0500
To: bzs@theworld.com
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
You could tunnel to a data center.=20
Or NAT out their service.=20
Tunneling via EoIP would allow you to stay within their ToS.=20
> On Dec 17, 2015, at 16:01, bzs@theworld.com wrote:
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> I'm looking at some sort of 50-100mbps failover link in case my
> primary is down.
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> My options seem limited particularly since I'm cheap.
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> I see Comcast has unlimited data business links in this range but I'm
> not sure I'd want to deal with the management issue of BGP or swapping
> ip blocks etc with them in an emergency. I just tried calling their
> business sales line and after the initial "Thank you for calling
> Comcast Business Services etc" it dropped me...three times. Yeah, that
> builds confidence.
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> So I'm thinking something more like using their service as a raw
> bandwidth pipe and tunneling to an actual route provider?
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> Crazy? Anyone done anything like this? Are there tools for that?
> Other, similar suggestions?
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> Feel free contact me off-list.
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> --=20
> -Barry Shein
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