Greetings, I have an odd question that I'm faced with regarding routing to external address spaces. The senario is a large network (global) with multiple points, each POP has tail sites that home and default to that Ipop as a gateway of last resort. The question I'm wrestling with is at each pop I have a /24 range, would it be best practice to route internally to those address spaces versus routing through my pop to each? In otherwords, if say I have a network thats located in Russia and I'm attempting to get to it from North America, wouldn't it make more sense to route through my own WAN versus the internet? My thought is that since I have more control over my WAN than the internet, I can better anticipate the results, but one could argue that it may make more sense to use the internet from each pop. Any comments or thoughts are appreciated, Joe Blanchard
joe wrote:
My thought is that since I have more control over my WAN than the internet, I can better anticipate the results, but one could argue that it may make more sense to use the internet from each pop.
Any comments or thoughts are appreciated,
... you forgot to say why it could make moe sense to use the internet from each pop. Basically it much depends on your needs, your policy and your wallet. Arnold
One could argue that it might make "moe" sense as a basis of redundancy, however my situation is more one of why or why not to do so. Security, perhaps but since its internet facing the trust from within is better then the trust outside, and since theres outside facing nets.... The problem is that I see both sides of the fence so to speak reagarding this issue. The item of cost for the packets flowing on my WAN is quite little, but more so wondering about best practices. Thanks -Jo¢ Blanchard ----- Original Message ----- From: "Arnold Nipper" <arnold@nipper.de> To: "joe" <joej@rocknyou.com> Cc: <nanog@nanog.org> Sent: Saturday, October 23, 2004 11:51 AM Subject: Re: Routing to external?
joe wrote:
My thought is that since I have more control over my WAN than the internet, I can better anticipate the results, but one could argue that it may make more sense to use the internet from each pop.
Any comments or thoughts are appreciated,
... you forgot to say why it could make moe sense to use the internet from each pop.
Basically it much depends on your needs, your policy and your wallet.
Arnold
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