My network spans a multicity geographic area using microwave radio links. The point of the GRE tunnel is to allow me to establish a BGP session to another AS using a consumer grade Internet connection (cheap) over the public Internet. I don't want to build out additional microwave paths to a new datacenter to become multihomed.
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 5:36 PM, C. Jon Larsen <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have read your email a few times and i dont see how this makes sense. > > Why do you need a public AS and PI space? Your gre tunnel wont need it or be > able to use it. A gre tunnel is just a replacement for a physical pipe. > > If your datacenter based presence goes down, you will need a pipe at your > office, or some other location speaking bgp that can annouce your block > anyway. > > > > > On Fri, 28 Jan 2011, Robert Johnson wrote: > >> My organization is planning to become multihomed in the near future. >> Currently we have redundant (router and physical path) links to a >> single AS where we get our transit, and speak BGP to them using a >> private ASN. This configuration has not been meeting our reliability >> requirements, so we will be getting our own ASN from ARIN, and moving >> from PA to PI IP space. >> >> Our new provider will be used for backup purposes only. We would like >> to minimize the monthly cost of this connection; to do this, we are >> planning to use a VZ business FIOS connection with symmetrical >> bandwidth to establish a GRE tunnel to a datacenter somewhere, and >> bring up a BGP session over that tunnel. I'd like to know if there are >> providers that offer such a service on a regular basis, and if so, if >> anyone is doing this and has words of wisdom. >> >> Thanks in advance. >> >> >> -- >> This message has been scanned for viruses and >> dangerous content by the Richweb.com MailScanner, and is >> believed to be clean. >> >> >> >
