If you have two ISPs then you'll have two sets of public addresses
assigned to you already. Their solution is to internally map one
address from each pool to each inside resource making them reachable
through each ISP. Then you do DNS round robin to get "load balancing".
I just don't like that solution because it's not as transparent to the
end user, but it does have some benefits: No ASN needed, BGP is
unnecessary, and it conserves addresses since you won't need an entire
/24. Unless, of course, you really do need a /24, but you probably
don't from the sounds of it.
Regards,
John
>>> "Kenneth" 6/12/01 8:12:21 PM >>>
Cool. I just thought it was too good to be true. I read, through a
newsgroup
search, that in order to do that, it has to act as the ns of the domain
and
that I need a separate set of public ip addresses for my network.
Basically,
it kinda works like Adapter teaming responding to ARP, sending
MACaddresses,... except on the network layer, right?
Either way, I think going with a BGP will be easier and I'm saving the
internet another set of Class C addresses.
Thanks, John
""John Neiberger"" wrote in message
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> In that situation--where you need to be advertised from both
> providers--these devices won't cut the mustard, at least as far as I
can
> tell. We have had reps from both companies here to explain to us
the
> benefits of their products and they still really don't have a good
way
> to do what you're trying to do.
>
> In our company we also host our own website and are multihomed. In
> this scenario we use BGP. Entirely separate from that network we
have
> an ISP for outgoing internet access for our employees. We will be
> adding a second T-1 and then installing the Radware Linkproof
hardware.
> In this case, we have no internal addresses that *have* to be
advertised
> from both ISPs so this will work quite well for us.
>
> HTH,
> John
>
> >>> "Kenneth" 6/11/01 6:16:56 PM >>>
> Has anyone deployed this? I'm going through their site and it
doesn't
> explain how it works without using BGP. We have a data center
hosting
> around
> 20 web-based application and we have an entire class C address
space.
> I
> don't see how the "backup" ISP will be able to advertise our network
if
> the
> primary ISP connection fails without using BGP as these products
claim
> to
> do.... any ideas?
>
> Thanks, guys!
>
> Kenneth
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