Hve seen it a few times -- usually with enterprise customers who are unable to manage their own routers and one ISP which has problems configuring BGP on their client facing equipment.
Dale Cornman wrote: > Has anyone ever heard of a multi-homed enterprise not running bgp with > either of 2 providers, but instead, each provider statically routes a block > to their common customer and also each originates this block in BGP? One > of the ISP's in this case owns the block and has even provided a letter of > authorization to the other, allowing them to announce it in BGP as well. > I had personally never heard of this and am curious if this is a common > practice as well as if this would potentially create any problems by 2 > Autonomous Systems both originating the same prefix. > > Thanks > > -Bill