[50388] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: solving problems instead of beating heads on walls [was:
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (C. Jon Larsen)
Sat Jul 27 14:21:43 2002
Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 14:20:59 -0400 (EDT)
From: "C. Jon Larsen" <jlarsen@richweb.com>
To: Ralph Doncaster <ralph@istop.com>
Cc: Andy Dills <andy@xecu.net>, Joe Provo <joe.provo@rcn.com>,
"nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0207271354160.19743-100000@cpu1693.adsl.bellglobal.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Setup a gre tunnel as your backup "path" for when the physical link goes
down between Ottawa-Toronto if you can't afford a backup physical link.
On Sat, 27 Jul 2002, Ralph Doncaster wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 27 Jul 2002, Ralph Doncaster wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > And your assumption about my Ottawa-Toronto link is wrong. I have a 100M
> > > point-to-point ethernet link between the cities. I have a 100M transit
> > > connection to Peer1 in Toronto, and have issued a letter of intent to a
> > > transit provider in Ottawa for a 100M link.
> >
> > Ralph, if you have a 100m link between the two cities, why don't you use
> > conditional announcements to only announce your /20 though Ottawa if your
> > primary transit in Toronto goes down? Then, you only need to announce your
> > /20 in Toronto, no need to deaggregate, and the whole issue is solved.
> >
> > Then, when you have the Ottawa 100m transit link up, you can announce your
> > /20 to both transit providers all the time.
> >
>
> That is roughly the intention. I also have to be able to announce the
> more specifics for when the Ottawa-Toronto link goes down. You could find
> in the archives my posts from a couple months back asking how to do this.
>
> -Ralph
>
>
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