[68501] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Enterprise Multihoming
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Fisher)
Sat Mar 13 02:26:12 2004
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 12:05:10 -0700
From: Stephen Fisher <stephenfmail-nanog@yahoo.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <s0517fdd.044@efirstbank.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Most of the multi-homing talk has been about failover capabilities
between different providers. What about the effects of multiple
providers when neither has actually failed; such as different paths for
inbound/outbound traffic. One provider may have better connectivity to
x site whereas the other provider has better connectivity to y. (Or is
this not as important as it used to be?)
On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 09:15:55AM -0700, John Neiberger wrote:
> In our case, we already are multihoming and I'm considering moving away
> from that to a simpler solution. It's been my assertion that we didn't
> need to multihome in the beginning. The decision was made at a level
> higher than me. However, now that we have it I'm trying to determine the
> pros and cons related to moving to a single provider.
