Hi, On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 6:50 AM, Dale Cornman <[email protected]> wrote: > Has anyone ever heard of a multi-homed enterprise not running bgp with > either of 2 providers, but instead, each provider statically routes a block > to their common customer and also each originates this block in BGP? One > of the ISP's in this case owns the block and has even provided a letter of > authorization to the other, allowing them to announce it in BGP as well. > I had personally never heard of this and am curious if this is a common > practice
I have seen it quite often. It allows an enterprise to be multihomed w/o getting PI or PA address space so they are usually pretty happy with it. >as well as if this would potentially create any problems by 2 > Autonomous Systems both originating the same prefix. AFAIR prefixes can be originated by more than one AS so there shouldn't be any issues. -- SY, Jen Linkova aka Furry
