Thank you for the response, John.
Accessibility from just about anywhere, especially in the US, keeps me happy
too. But our ISPs have a tendency to mess up routing table entries or
otherwise shut us off. We have outgrown a single T1, and want to add some
redundancy.
I need a solution that will mean that a *single* mistake outside of our
control doesn't shut us down. There's an ISP in town that's willing to run
BGP with us -- and they want us to get both lines from them. But would that
put us back into the position of being vulnerable to a single mistake at
their location? If *both* our ISPs mess up at the same time -- well, that's
exceptionally bad luck. I realize we have to accept some risk for things
that are so unlikely. But yesterday morning, one ISP was down for 45
minutes, taking down most of our sites. This afternoon the other one is
down, taking down one of our newest clients.
You're right we don't quite need a /24 ... /25 or probably even /26 would
work. And the ISP in town wants to set us up on one of their private ASN's.
They're also trying to talk us out of running BGP, though they'll do it if
we insist.
If an ISP -- either our current one or another one -- can provide us
circuits that follow different paths, would that give us the level of
redundancy we're looking for?
Thanks again!
--
Daniel Wilson
""John Neiberger"" wrote in message
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> Keep in mind what is actually occurring when using BGP. You are
> advertising prefixes from your AS into your provider's AS. They in turn
> either include your specific prefix in their announcements to other
> providers, or they aggregate your smaller prefix into larger
> advertisements. It is at this stage that you need to worry about what
> other providers are doing as far as filtering.
>
> If your provider is advertising your specific prefix, a /24 for
> instance, but the other companies won't accept anything less than a /22,
> then you're up a creek. We are advertising a /24 to two separate
> providers and I haven't seen any reachability problems from anywhere in
> the world. As far as I'm concerned, if we can be reached by either path
> from just about anywhere, especially in the US, then I'm happy.
>
> I've been following your posts and I'm curious about your motivation
> for adding a second provider. This adds a measure of complexity that
> might not be necessary, depending on your goals. Can your current
> provider give you a circuit that follows a separate path then your first
> circuit? If so, that would eliminate a couple of issues.
>
> First, you wouldn't even necessarily need to run BGP, although I would
> prefer to do so. But instead of getting full routes, you could accept
> defaults-only from your provider and advertise your addresses on both
> links.
>
> Second, you wouldn't worry about getting an entire /24--or
> larger--block of addresses. In this scenario, your provider will
> aggregate your prefix into their larger announcements, but when traffic
> destined for your network arrives in their network, internally they'll
> see two available paths. This has the additional benefit of not wasting
> registered addresses since you probably don't really need an entire
> /24.
>
> Third, you won't have to apply for your own AS number from Arin. If
> you run BGP over two links to the same provider, they will either let
> you use their ASN or let you use a private ASN that will only be seen by
> their network.
>
> Would a solution like this work for you?
>
> Regards,
> John
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> John Neiberger
> Firstbank Data Corporation
> 12345 W. Colfax Ave.
> Lakewood, CO 80215
> (303) 235-1093
>
>
> >>> "Daniel Wilson" 7/6/01 12:23:46 PM >>>
> We are looking into multi-homing our network and running BGP on our
> router.
>
> I was told by some of you before that some ISPs won't advertise a block
> of
> IP's smaller than /22 and many won't do any smaller than /24. That
> leads to
> this question.
>
> Are our ISPs the only ones that need to advertise our block? Or does
> everybody out there need to advertise the block?
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> Daniel Wilson
> CompuSoft Solutions and The Worthwhile Company
> http://www.worthwhile.com
> Your complete e-business solution partners.
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