On 5/12/06, Regino Angeles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
you can have a firewall, for instance fortigate, which is capable of doing the routing, load balancing and failover for two different ISPs.
I failed to mention that although yes, you can have private ASNs, BGP is still overkill, IMO, when all you need is route failover and balancing. Like what Paul said, it's better to just "keep the global routing tables low" -- that is, not pollute it. If your network is not in the /19 range, BGP is not for you; and even then, ISP folks here will tell you how the process is a PITA (haven't tried it myself, but talked to people who have). Sure, Zebra can do that for you, but a Linux box for WAN links is *plain hard work*. As Regino has mentioned, maybe Tony is better off with an appliance (Fortigate is one; I've personally used Sonicwall) that does what he needs. Or, if you can do without the serial connections and use just Ethernet, several people here have done that -- just search the archives. But it would be great to see how his setup turns out, if he does get to implement it. :) -- Ian Dexter R. Marquez http://iandexter.co.nr [PGP key: 0x707F6E40] _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
