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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: solving problems instead of beating heads on walls [was: something about arrogance]
Setup a gre tunnel as your backup "path" for when the physical link goes down between Ottawa-Toronto if you can't afford a backup physical link. On Sat, 27 Jul 2002, Ralph Doncaster wrote: > > > On Sat, 27 Jul 2002, Ralph Doncaster wrote: > > > > > > > > And your assumption about my Ottawa-Toronto link is wrong. I have a 100M > > > point-to-point ethernet link between the cities. I have a 100M transit > > > connection to Peer1 in Toronto, and have issued a letter of intent to a > > > transit provider in Ottawa for a 100M link. > > > > Ralph, if you have a 100m link between the two cities, why don't you use > > conditional announcements to only announce your /20 though Ottawa if your > > primary transit in Toronto goes down? Then, you only need to announce your > > /20 in Toronto, no need to deaggregate, and the whole issue is solved. > > > > Then, when you have the Ottawa 100m transit link up, you can announce your > > /20 to both transit providers all the time. > > > > That is roughly the intention. I also have to be able to announce the > more specifics for when the Ottawa-Toronto link goes down. You could find > in the archives my posts from a couple months back asking how to do this. > > -Ralph > > -- C. Jon Larsen Chief Technology Officer, Richweb.com (804.307.6939) SMTP: [email protected] (http://richweb.com/cjl_pgp_pub_key.txt) Richweb.com: Designing Open Source Internet Business Solutions since 1995 Building Safe, Secure, Reliable Cisco-Powered Networks since 1995
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