[186440] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: failover via comcast tunnel?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bzs@theworld.com)
Fri Dec 18 22:03:07 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2015 13:44:36 -0500
From: bzs@theworld.com
To: Matt Hoppes <mhoppes@indigowireless.com>
In-Reply-To: <5C433AA7-1A9E-4D65-B403-48E57493707D@indigowireless.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org, bzs@theworld.com
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
FWIW we do expect to pay for this service, by "cheap" I just meant,
well, cheap, but not free. It's all relative I suppose.
But thanks for the response thus far!
On December 17, 2015 at 16:15 mhoppes@indigowireless.com (Matt Hoppes) wrote:
> You could tunnel to a data center.
>
> Or NAT out their service.
>
> Tunneling via EoIP would allow you to stay within their ToS.
>
> > On Dec 17, 2015, at 16:01, bzs@theworld.com wrote:
> >
> >
> > I'm looking at some sort of 50-100mbps failover link in case my
> > primary is down.
> >
> > My options seem limited particularly since I'm cheap.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > So I'm thinking something more like using their service as a raw
> > bandwidth pipe and tunneling to an actual route provider?
> >
> > Crazy? Anyone done anything like this? Are there tools for that?
> > Other, similar suggestions?
> >
> > Feel free contact me off-list.
> >
> > --
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