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> On Mon, 19 Aug 1996, Jon Zeeff wrote: > > > Not only is it reality, it is, from the customers point of view, a good > > idea. > > > There is a solution to the customer who wants to be dual-homed > > to two providers and not contribute to the "routers can't handle the > > tables" problem. Just don't announce your more specifics to your backup > > provider unless you know your primary is down. Some type of automated > > script can do it. > > Has any of this been WELL documented somewhere so that when a customer is > asking about multihoming we can point them to a website where they can > learn the right way to do multihoming? > > Michael Dillon - ISP & Internet Consulting > Memra Software Inc. - Fax: +1-604-546-3049 > http://www.memra.com - E-mail: [email protected] Some of it is at http://www.netaxs.com/~freedman/multi.html. I'll see about making it better and simpler - and will add some simple configs that are somewhat bit more idiot-proof. And it has to be clear that if: a) Your providers will configure their networks to only announce you if your line is up (+/- any damping), and b) You believe that a load-balanced defaul route with 'ip route-cache' on will do good data delivery out from your network That BGP does not need to be involved at all for the multi-homed. Avi - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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