RE: [cobalt-users] switch router suggestions?

["Mark Spieth" <mspieth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

no you don't need poratable IP's however you have to pay $500.00 to arin for
an ASN number first and give them the 2 (or more) networks you need to
route. If you are going to route only a few addresses Arin will probably
deny your reqest. Also be prepared for at least 64 megs and it probably
should be 128 megs of ram dedicated jsut to routing to hold your routing
tables. The bgp routing will handle your inbound lines, then you should use
something like ospf to handle your outbound gateway. On a final note sprint
will igmore bgp routes of anything less than a /19 therefore you still may
not be routing should one of your lines go down and someone is attempting to
reach you from sprints baskbone.



-----Original Message-----
From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Jeff Lasman
Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2000 2:03 AM
To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] switch router suggestions?


At 09:55 PM 2/29/00 -0500, you wrote:
>If you really want to do this, you might just want to setup a PC
functioning
>as router, WinProxy will do the trick I guess...

Very good answer <wry grin>.  Very simplistic.

If you know how to make a PC-based router run BGP and auto-update routing
tables when lines go down, AND handle both cable connections and DSL
connections, and if you know where to buy pc cards to handle cable lines
and dsl lines, please let us all know.

You do know, I presume, that without BGP you don't have redundancy because
nothing knows how to reach you, right?

And you do know that to make BGP work with two separate upstreams you need
portable IP#s, right?  And you do know how to get portable IP#s for cable
and DSL connections, right?

I thought so <smile>.

So tell us.

Jeff

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Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>


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