Date: Thu, 4 Jan 1996 22:49:27 +0000 () From: Alexei Nikolaevich Romanov <alexei@loach.org> To: scrappy@ki.net (Marc G. Fournier) Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: two isp's, one net Message-ID: <199601042249.WAA01928@albion.loach.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960105014213.13628C-100000@hub.org> from "Marc G. Fournier" at Jan 5, 96 01:43:56 am
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> > On Thu, 4 Jan 1996, Alexei Nikolaevich Romanov wrote: > > > I am not believing this can be accomplished without peering with providers > > at Network Access Points like MAE East, or CIX; the reason being is the > > fact that backbone routing would need to be coordinated for your network > > through the Routing Arbitration Database, and for the same internet addresses > > to be routed through providers would not necessarily be possible solution due > > to the way in which addressing information is 'pointed' at one provider or the > > other. If you'd like more intelligent elaboration, you are welcome to contact > > me; I work for one of the nationwide providers ,and we have tackled this > > problem for customers before with little success. > > > Wait...I thought this was just a matter of getting assigned > an AS #, and making use of BGP routing (or OSPF, which I believe is > the newer of the two). Using something like Gated on the "gateway" > box, routing through either or both providers should be (I know... > the books always make it sound *sooo* easy) trivial... > > Marc G. Fournier | POP Mail Telnet Acct DNS Hosting > System | WWW Services Database Services | Knowledge, > Administrator | | Information and > scrappy@ki.net | WWW: http://www.ki.net | Communications, Inc > > I stand corrected; the mfact it though, that you're fairly likely to run into difficulty with the providers, due to the seemingly widespread reluctance of their network administrators to pick up such strangely sticky issues for those customers who aren't the multimillion dollar corporations. OSPF is an excellent protocol for the application, and BGP is quite serviceable; the faceless national providers tend not to be so generous with it, without a customer-service-request tantrum, which, is of course, a quite viable option. ;) --Alexei
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