-----Original Message----- From: Joe Abley [mailto:jabley@isc.org] Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 10:55 AM To: Hannigan, Martin Cc: NANOG list Subject: Re: Proper authentication model
On 12 Jan 2005, at 10:16, Hannigan, Martin wrote:
If you have 3 sites and they're interconnected via an OC3 and the internet, you would also have 2 frame or ppp circuits seperately connecting the terminal server network. You'd do the different path, different provider, etc. on these circuits.
You mean you'd *request* a different path from different providers.
Provisioning a circuit from two different ^providers^, other than your OC3 provider. Of course, you need to have at least 3 unique carriers in the facility, but most do. This is not so easy at the enterprise level. I'd add the caveat that this only works if you have diversified entrance facilities and follow bellcore standards for central offices when you design and implement your facilities. For example, Level3 and Internap. -M<