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Re: Alternative to BGP-4 for multihoming?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Wed Mar 1 11:54:30 2000
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>
To: Hank Nussbacher <hank@att.net.il>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 11:52:26 -0500
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In message <3.0.5.32.20000301174204.0081c280@max.ibm.net.il>, Hank Nussbacher w
rites:
>
> Radware has a product called Linkproof and claims that it negates the need
> for BGP-4 and portable IP addresses:
>
> http://www.radware.com/product/lproof/Default.htm
>
> I have a customer that requires multihoming and they want to use Linkproof
> and I want them to do BGP-4. Does anyone have any experience using this as
> an alternative to BGP-4?
The Web page states that the device uses NAT. I can't speak for others, but
NAT is against my religion....
--Steve Bellovin
