If you are doing BGP, you can setup two routers, each doing bgp to one of the upstreams, and ibgp between the two.
This make a lot of sense, from redundancy as well as the ability to do maintenance, without causing an outage. Regards. Faisal Imtiaz Snappy Internet & Telecom 7266 SW 48 Street Miami, FL 33155 Tel: 305 663 5518 x 232 Help-desk: (305)663-5518 Option 2 or Email: [email protected] > From: "TJ Trout" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Monday, January 25, 2016 12:44:32 AM > Subject: [AFMUG] Redundancy at core router > I currently have 2 upstream's and only 1 router, planning to add a second > router > for redundancy, is it over kill (or even possible?) to get each upstream to > allocate 2 ports on their router so that each of my routers will have 2 > upsteams or is it more than sufficient to just do 1 upstream per router? It's > extremely unlikely to have 1 upstream and one router fail at the same time, I > think. > Does that make since?
