Re: Multihoming for the small ISP ( search engine) ala 2005

2005-03-01 Thread james edwards
> As long as they have a /24 that they can announce, two or more upstreams > that are able and willing to establish BGP sessions with them and a router > with enough memory to hold at least 2 full views (for a Cisco, you > probably want 256MB or more these days), they can multi (or dual) home. T

Re: Multihoming for the small ISP ( search engine) ala 2005

2005-03-01 Thread up
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Geoff White wrote: > 2) What is the "preferred or correct" way for a relatively small outfit > (a small search engine) to implement Multihoming? Especially when most > of the machines are a VLS cluster so we are not talking about a large > address space here. It seems the o

Re: Multihoming for the small ISP ( search engine) ala 2005

2005-02-28 Thread Jon Lewis
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Geoff White wrote: > 2) What is the "preferred or correct" way for a relatively small outfit > (a small search engine) to implement Multihoming? Especially when most > of the machines are a VLS cluster so we are not talking about a large > address space here. It seems the o

Multihoming for the small ISP ( search engine) ala 2005

2005-02-28 Thread Geoff White
Greetings folks, (It's been a long time :) I have some questions about multihoming that I can't seem to find by Google-ing for answers 1.) What ever happened to (Avi Freedman's?) Multihoming strategy using DNS(?), there are links to archives circa 1997 but nothing recent. 2) What is the "preferr