[68414] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Enterprise Multihoming
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (E.B. Dreger)
Thu Mar 11 12:50:03 2004
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 17:49:13 +0000 (GMT)
From: "E.B. Dreger" <eddy+public+spam@noc.everquick.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <s0503b29.043@efirstbank.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
JN> Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 10:10:17 -0700
JN> From: John Neiberger
JN> My current opinion is that since we can't accept much
JN> downtime in the case of a single provider failure, it's
JN> probably not wise to put all of our eggs in Sprint's basket
JN> even if all circuits are geographically diverse.
Use multiple border routers. Keep your IGP lean and nimble.
Think about BGP/IGP synchronization.
WAN links can fail, but so can ethernet links and entire routers.
Eddy
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