23 Aug
2001
23 Aug
'01
8:49 p.m.
From: Vijay Gill <vgill@vijaygill.com> Date: 23 Aug 2001 23:20:48 +0000
eg, say I am connected to two upstreams, I would like to still continue reachability with the global net in case of failure of one of the upstreams (as wide failure), or a failure of an upstream POP (which happens to be the only one in my LATA) from one of the providers.
Take prefixes from both providers and use them. Route your egress traffic appropriately. My point wasn't that "there is no need to BGP multihome", but that many seem to see this as the only way of achieving use of multiple providers worth of pipe. There are other alternatives, depending on your application.