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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: IP failover/migration question.
On 6/27/06, Owen DeLong <[email protected]> wrote: > Uptime might not matter for small hosts that do mom and pop websites > or so-called "beta" blog-toys, but every time Level3 takes a dump, > it's my wallet that feels the pain. It's actually a rather frustrating > situation for people who aren't big enough to justify a /19 and an > AS#, but require geographically dispersed locations answering on the > same IP(s). I'm not sure why you think you need to be that big to get portable IP space. Policy 2002-3 allows for the issuance of a /22 to any organization which can show a need and the ability to utilize at least 50% of a /22 with multihoming. An ASN can be obtained pretty easily if you intend to multihome. About the only thing that might stand in the way of a small organization is the up front cost, but, even that is less than $2000. It's entirely possible that I was mistaken with regards to /19 vs /22, but a /22 is still way more ips than I really need, I mean hell, I'm not really using my /24 currently. I don't nearly have 256 machines, and I certainly (without honepotting almost all of it) justify 1,024 ips. In fact, in my network infrastructure currently, I've got one loadbalancer that sits in front of 6 machines that don't have public ips, so there goes any thought of justification ;-) and yet, when I'm at 4 load balancers, I'll want them in geographically dispersed locations, with a variety of upstream providers so that I don't have to deal with the issues surrounding single-homed networking.
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