[3740] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Customer AS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Dillon)
Mon Aug 19 12:35:14 1996
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 09:15:42 -0700 (PDT)
From: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
To: Jon Zeeff <jon@branch.com>
cc: Henry Kilmer <hank@rem.com>, smd@chops.icp.net, randy@psg.com,
nanog@merit.edu, hank@sprint.net
In-Reply-To: <m0usTtw-000NjSC@aero.branch.com>
On Mon, 19 Aug 1996, Jon Zeeff wrote:
> Not only is it reality, it is, from the customers point of view, a good
> idea.
> There is a solution to the customer who wants to be dual-homed
> to two providers and not contribute to the "routers can't handle the
> tables" problem. Just don't announce your more specifics to your backup
> provider unless you know your primary is down. Some type of automated
> script can do it.
Has any of this been WELL documented somewhere so that when a customer is
asking about multihoming we can point them to a website where they can
learn the right way to do multihoming?
Michael Dillon - ISP & Internet Consulting
Memra Software Inc. - Fax: +1-604-546-3049
http://www.memra.com - E-mail: michael@memra.com
