On Fri, Oct 03, 2003, at 18:08 PDT, "Robinson, Eric R." wrote:
> At NDOT we're considering a secondary ISP, so our web servers can benefit
> from dual homing. We are currently connected via GigE to DoIT. They, in
> turn, have an 18-megabit (soon to be 40-megabit) connection to SBCIS.
>
> To augment this, we are considering a 3-megabit failover connection to
> another ISP. The goal is availability, not necessarily load sharing or load
> balancing, although we're entertaining those possibilities.
>
> ...
>
> As an alternative, we are considering an appliance such as the f5 Networks
> BIG-IP LinkController 1000 ( www.f5networks.com <http://www.f5networks.com/>
> ). This device basically does link health monitoring and smart DNS. It
> requires no changes to the customer's network, no cooperation from ISPs, and
> no BGP. It costs a little less than a new Cisco 3700 router with enough
> power to handle the Internet routing tables, but it is easier to implement,
> more reliable than a BGP solution, and fails over in about 250 milliseconds.
Also, you can do BGP and OSPF on most any Unix box.
http://www.zebra.org
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Sam Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.dasbistro.com
Reno Nevada
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