Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 16:11:29 -0400 From: Outback Dingo <outbackdingo@gmail.com> To: Daniel Feenberg <feenberg@nber.org> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, Terje Elde <terje@elde.net>, "Zyumbilev, Peter" <peter@aboutsupport.com> Subject: Re: 2 lines Message-ID: <CAKYr3zzm8jim6C0XimBM1J9CvhJ29Q7gPhetzd0xKQcs4f8ASw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.LRH.2.03.1307291603080.12182@nber.org> References: <51F66820.4080907@aboutsupport.com> <51F668E2.4090806@aboutsupport.com> <1375105599.9477.2811311.2C84EDDD@webmail.messagingengine.com> <51F69A9F.3050800@aboutsupport.com> <62E804FE-0941-4F40-83C5-8BCAC26CB3E0@elde.net> <alpine.LRH.2.03.1307291603080.12182@nber.org>
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On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 4:06 PM, Daniel Feenberg <feenberg@nber.org> wrote: > > > On Mon, 29 Jul 2013, Terje Elde wrote: > > On 29. juli 2013, at 18:38, "Zyumbilev, Peter" <peter@aboutsupport.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Not sure what is the best way nowadays to get own /24 or at least /26 ? >>> >> >> I don't think you ever said if this was two links from the same provider, >> or two different providers. That's a huge factor in what your options are. >> >> You'll have a hard time doing BGP-based failover with a /26. It's just >> too small a route to be announced globally. >> >> This stuff isn't just a technical question, but also one of policy and >> politics. In order to get to a proper solution, your best option is >> probably to give the provider(s) a call, and explain what you'd like to do. >> >> Depening on a lot of things, one option could be to have the provider >> owning the IP(s) tunnel it over the other link durin fault. Hard to say if >> they will, so you really nedd to talk to them. >> >> In the meantime, DNS-failover is a lot better than nothing. >> > > Did the OP say he was running servers at all? If there are no servers, > then any of a number of "dual-wan routers" will handle the problem with no > difficulty and minimal expense. If he is running servers, these routers > generally come with built in software to do dynamic updates of DNS, that I > understand works, provided you don't have unreasonable expectations about > reliability. Just because some institutions can't stand 5 minutes of > downtime doesn't mean there isn't a legitimate use for facilities that > suffer 5 minutes of downtime several times a year. Yes he did... "However when one line is down all connections Internet --> LAN to certain service(e.g www) via that connection are down as expected." > > > daniel feenberg > NBER > > > >> Terje >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/**mailman/listinfo/freebsd-**questions<http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>; >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-** >> unsubscribe@freebsd.org <freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org>" >> >> ______________________________**_________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/**mailman/listinfo/freebsd-**questions<http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>; > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-** > unsubscribe@freebsd.org <freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org>" >
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