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Re: Multihoming for the small ISP ( search engine) ala 2005

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (james edwards)
Tue Mar 1 11:34:56 2005

From: "james edwards" <hackerwacker@cybermesa.com>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 09:34:30 -0700
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


> As long as they have a /24 that they can announce, two or more upstreams
> that are able and willing to establish BGP sessions with them and a router
> with enough memory to hold at least 2 full views (for a Cisco, you
> probably want 256MB or more these days), they can multi (or dual) home.


They many not need anything near 2 full tables. A default plus providers own
and customer routes
could do, and would require less memory/smaller router.

James H. Edwards
Routing and Security Administrator
At the Santa Fe Office: Internet at Cyber Mesa
jamesh@cybermesa.com  noc@cybermesa.com
http://www.cybermesa.com/ContactCM
(505) 795-7101


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