[isp-bgp] Re: BGP advantages

[Dean Anderson <dean@...>]

You need to have portable address space before BGP is going to useful. 

If you are too small to have portable address space, your only DIY choice
is DNS failover. But this isn't really ideal.

The other (better) alternative is to find a provider like Av8 Internet,
which is locally multihomed, and buy services from them.  A locally
multihomed provider offers the benefits of BGP multihoming, locally.  In
contrast, a large national provider can't offer those things.  The locally
multihomed provider offers you everything you can get:  Multihoming (done
locally) removes a failure at a national provider, and locally redundant
physical connectivity protests your access to that provider.  If they are
really on top of their game, they will have multiple sites at different
but still generally local sites, so that one of their sites isn't a
critical failure point.

There are some things you can't do yourself.  We only do these things in 
New England.  Don't look to someone outside of your regional area to offer 
these things.

Dean Anderson
Av8 Internet, Inc



> From: "Eagle, Rob" <rob.eagle@...>
> 
> Our company is currently looking at alternatives to our Radware LinkProof
> solution.
> We are multi-homed, have address space from both ISPs and not AS number.
> I have always looked toward standards such as BGP to be my first choice, but
> am having a hard time convincing the project team.
> Is BGP that hard to get in?  What are the advantages of a BGP solution over
> a DNS solution for multi-homing?  What are we losing?
> Thanks in advance for any information provided.
> Rob Eagle
> 309-821-4525









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