Very true, thanks Howard, I left that out.
-B
""Howard C. Berkowitz"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> >Brian,
> >
> >Hi! Funny you bring this up, I just got a phone call on it today.
> >Basically, you can have two seperate ISPs and have incoming redundant
> >connections without using BGP. ISP1 will provide a block of IPs from a
> >portion of their CIDR block to the "company." Since this is part of
ISP1s
> >CIDR block, they already broadcast a route to the rest of the internet
> >containing the company's block of IPs.
>
>
> >
> >ISP2 will then also broadcast a route to ISP1's block of IPs (just the
> >block!!!). The tricky part comes when you try to do load balancing
between
> >the two for incoming traffic!!!
> >
> > I am making several assumptions here (that the ISPs will play nice with
> >each other among other things).
> >
> ISP1, however, MUST advertise not its aggregate alone, but both its
> aggregate and the more-specific customer block that also is
> advertised by ISP2.
>
> Assume the following:
>
> ISP1 has the block 192.168.0.0/16. This is the only block it advertises.
>
> It delegates 192.168.2.0/24 to the customer.
>
> ISP2 advertises 192.168.2.0/24.
>
> So in the global routing table, there will be two routes:
>
> 192.168.0.0/16 ISP1
> 192.168.2.0/24 ISP2
>
> Since 192.16.2.0/24 is more specific than 192.168.0.0/16, the rest of
> the world will send ALL 192.168.2.0/24 traffic to ISP2.
>
> By having ISP1 advertise both its aggregate and the more-specific,
> the routing system conceptually will contain:
>
> 192.168.0.0/16 ISP1
> 192.168.2.0/24 ISP1
> 192.168.2.0/24 ISP2
>
> Other AS will install the ISP1 route to 192.168.2.0/24 if their
> connectivity to ISP1 is better than their connectivity to ISP2, and
> vice versa.
>
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