On Thu, 3 May 2001, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> This gains ISP#1 multiple paths to ISP#2 - ie: More
> Bandwidth. Plus, it gives them a redundant backup in case their
> direct link to ISP#2 goes down.
>
> In exchange for this ISP#1 agrees to credit your bill to
> zero - in effect, you are now serving as a feed to them
> that costs them nothing.
I'm going to veto that one. I've read (alas, I'm not yet a BGP admin) that
you can prepend your own AS as a method of equilization. As this scenario
unfolds, you have two pipes which eventually diverge. You prepend your AS
to the ISP #1 route (the big upstream) so that it's advertised as two
hops, and then route normally for the other ISP (the five-year contract
one). The net result should be two equal-cost routes back to your NOC even
though it goes to two ISPs (really one).
Make sense?
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Kris Kirby, KE4AHR | TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said.
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