On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 09:02:47PM -0500, Jacob Yocom-Piatt wrote: > (1) i have 2 blocks of 8 static IPs at my disposal, one at home and one at > work,
So two /29's ? > and both connections are 3Mb/512Kb ADSL via PPPoE. the upstream traffic at > work > is beginning to saturate the connection and i would like to share some of the > load with the home connection. would BGP allow me to multihome a site across > both connections to split the load? > > would i need an AS number if this would work? Yup. That's not all. You need at least a /20 (AFAIK) to be able for large backbones to even consider routing your advertisement. But this was heresay years ago, I don't know if it still holds. The investment though is in the thousands of dollars a year though (ARIN fees http://www.arin.net/billing/fee_schedule.html) and you have to justify using that much IP space. > (2) are there any particular online docs that are recommended reading for > BGP? RFC's, NANOG archives perhaps too > what about books? > > (3) the home gateway machine is a PII-350 w/ 64MB ram. is this too slow for > doing what i have asked about in (1)? Dunno. I suspect you won't be able to load a full BGP table. BGP is really a big boys(tm) protocol not sure if 2 ADSL connection classifies you as that. If it did then they would quickly run out of the 16 bit ASN space wouldn't you think? Perhaps considering a protocol like CARP is more what you want? -peter -- Here my ticker tape .signature #### My name is Peter Philipp #### lynx -dump "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pufferfish&oldid=20768394"; | sed -n 131,136p #### So long and thanks for all the fish!!!
