Just make sure you don't shoot yourself in the foot by telling the best route to the end of the tunnel is via the tunnel itself...
I use it too: http://www.avonsys.com/blogpost367 but because I have no other choice. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Johnson" <fasterfour...@gmail.com> To: "C. Jon Larsen" <jlar...@richweb.com>, nanog@nanog.org Sent: Saturday, 29 January, 2011 6:48:50 PM Subject: Re: Need provider suggestions - BGP transit over GRE tunnel 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 <jlar...@richweb.com> 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. >
