For the folks asking what island. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magdalen_Islands http://www.panoramio.com/user/45210 We are hiring if someone is interested :) It's not like the Bahamas. I wish it was. It's alot colder here. I've talked to ISP1 yesterday and they will let me know what they can do. There's a chance... I will also have to scale up. I don't think my Soekris with OpenBSD can handle two full route of the Internet. Any suggestions ? Charles On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 7:16 AM, Elmar K. Bins <elmi@4ever.de> wrote:
Re Charles,
this is all about control, so you don't lose connectivity in case something outside your control fails.
The best idea so far is the ebgp-multihop idea with your ISP's transit provider. This means speaking BGP to them yourself and taking care that the traffic takes the intended path, too (will usually work).
If you can spare the money, I'd set up my own hubs on the "mainland", tunnel to them through each of my ISPs and use that hub for the routing of all incoming traffic. This does of course mean additional hardware, housing, local loops and probably additional transit providers. It would nonetheless give you full control.
The second best idea so far is that the NANOG people could "talk" to your ISP(s)...this has worked in more than one case.
So - where is your island, how's the weather, and are you hiring? ;-)
Yours, Elmar.