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On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, rich wrote:
> Depends on who you know AND if it is for a business. I guess
> I should have been thinking a little better, since I did not ask if
> this was a home or business. For business use, you can make
> arrangements with the cable folks to run BGP. I know, I have done so.
I'm astounded. I'd not heard of any cable providers supporting
business accounts...
> For those who care -- BGP does what the person was looking for -- real
> load balancing and alternate path routing. It is NOT easy to setup or
> maintain, but when it works, it works nicely. For a pair of T1's, or
> cable modems, if you will, you can get almost close to the theoretical
> 3Mbps (hey, nothing is perfect -- you can't even get 3Mbps on real T1's...)
> And the other beauty of it, you lose one of the lines/modems and it continues
> to work...
Very familiar w/ BGP/IBGP/EBGP, it's definitely very nice, esp when
you've got a large enough router to hold the routing table...
> I have to admit, even though I have (somewhat) quietly lurked on this list
> for sometime, I had
> to through this one in... Sorry, I was just not thinking clearly. I did find
> the answer about "switching" the default route as the NIC detects traffic a
> very clever concept. If someone ever gets that to work, I would love to see
> it...
I'm not positive that would be possible... Not if (as I suspect) you
have two different IP addresses (one for each cable modem), either that, or
you'd just be switching which interface was full, and the other would still be
empty... You really need something along the lines of a ip masq module that
would monitor each connection and would handle new connections going out based
on which port was currently busy. It would work because it could happily come
from more than one IP address and handle it. Of course, some sites that care
about such things as security might get a little picky. Hrm, hrm... Would
probably work well for ftp and regular http (https would probably have to be
handled as a special case to some extent)...
Stephen
> At 12:49 PM 9/3/99 -0700, David A. Ranch wrote:
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> >
> >
> > >Uh, BGP anyone....
> >
> >Hehehe.. Yeah.. NOT!
> >
> >If @home started propogating BGP (iGP and eGP) to their custombers,
> >us smart ones could take over their network pretty quickly.
> >
> >--David
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