On Apr 7, 2011, at 8:13 PM, Tom Limoncelli wrote: > On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 10:51 PM, Owen DeLong <[email protected]> wrote: >> There is no need for NAT in order to multiple-home. BGP is every bit as >> effective and much simpler. >> > > I know a lot of small businesses with one FiOS link and one Comcast > link and I don't think they're going to be able to do BGP. Their > providers won't do it and their prem equipment doesn't support it and > the local IT person doesn't have the know-how to do it. I know that > the typical NANOG member isn't in this category, but this is a > use-case that is very common and outnumbers NANOG members. > I have one DSL and one Cable. Neither the DSL provider nor Comcast will do BGP. I do BGP just fine without them doing BGP.
Owen
