Pipeline internet help

2002-11-08 Thread Johnno
Hello All, At the moment the servers I ran has only one pipline to the net, Now I am looking at adding other one as a backup.. How do I go about make the second as a backup so if the first goes down the second will take over?? Then when the first one goes back online that will be used putting

Re: Pipeline internet help

2002-11-08 Thread Peter Billson
Johnno, That depends on where the second pipe is coming from. If it is coming from a different NOC of the same upstream company then they should take care of all the messy routing details. If you use multiple providers then use BGP to provide multiple routes for your IP blocks. Your

Pipeline internet help

2002-11-08 Thread Johnno
Hello All, At the moment the servers I ran has only one pipline to the net, Now I am looking at adding other one as a backup.. How do I go about make the second as a backup so if the first goes down the second will take over?? Then when the first one goes back online that will be used putting

Re: Pipeline internet help

2002-11-08 Thread Peter Billson
Johnno, That depends on where the second pipe is coming from. If it is coming from a different NOC of the same upstream company then they should take care of all the messy routing details. If you use multiple providers then use BGP to provide multiple routes for your IP blocks. Your