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Re: IP failover/migration question.

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Sun Jun 11 23:15:38 2006

From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2006 17:14:58 -1000
To: <ennova2005-nanog@yahoo.com>
Cc: Andrew Warfield <andrew.warfield@cl.cam.ac.uk>, nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


> a somewhat cleaner way to do this would be to advertize a less specific
> route from the DR location covering the more specific route of the primary
> location.  If the primary route is withdrawn, voila .. traffic starts
> moving to the less specific route automatically without you having to
> scramble at the time of the outage to inject a new route.

aha!  much cleaner indeed!  and works single or multi provider.
<duh>

randy


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