RE: [cobalt-users] switch router suggestions?

[Rik Thomas <rikt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Portable IP space is not necessary at all for an ASN or BGP.  Arin is only
giving our /19's right now for portable IP space.  If having portable IP
space was a requirement for BGP it would be one really big nasy slow
Internet, well slower than it already is.  :)  BGP tables would be
tremendously slow...hmm, I could prolly do BGP on a 2501 :)

You can have redundancy without BGP, it just is a hairy pain. You also
have to have name servers on both networks, two ip addresses for
everything and some pretty nice upstreams but it is possible.

PC based routers are very much alive, see http://www.etinc.com

That all being said, I would never stake a business whether it be hosting
or just needing net connectivity on cable or DSL.  If you don't understand
why I said that then you need to hit the books and understand each
technology, their benefits and negative implications concerning data.


On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Jeff Lasman wrote:

> 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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