On 2 Jun 2003, Robert Collins wrote:
> Dual homed connection to them, using two separate exchanges and/or
> connection technologies - on two power grids... you may need to rent
> facilities to get these two things.
And note that not even this will guarantee absolutely seamless failover.
A flapping link on one of the redundant links will give BGP heartattacks,
and result in route advertisements changing frequently until someone gets
in the moddiel of it and stops the flapping link from advertising anything
until it's repaired.
{wry grin} been there, done that.
DaZZa
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