Are your DSL uplinks from different ISPs, or from the same IP provider? If they are differing providers, there is no way you can feasably implement BGP. If they are redundant paths to the same ISP you could ask them to issue you a reserved ASN (65512 - 65535) and announce your /28 into their network via ebgp sessions. That makes a lot of assumptions about software support on your router(s), and of their willingness to accomodate you, of course.
Realistically, you aren't going to make this happen. Perhaps you could participate in something like the 6BONE, or simply colocate your obviously mission-critical services at your ISP. - jsw -----Original Message----- From: Mike Fedyk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mike Fedyk Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 9:22 PM To: debian-isp@lists.debian.org Cc: debian-firewall@lists.debian.org Subject: Multiple DSLs, and switching incoming route upon failure? Hi, I don't believe I'm subscribed to this list, so please cc me also. (I'm on so many debian lists, and I put all of the low traffic ones in one folder...) I already have multiple DSL links to the Internet, but I haven't done anything more as far as incoming connections besides SMTP and a couple others for remote workers. The problem now is I want to put a FTP and DNS server up. These by them selves aren't a problem, but sometimes one of the DSLs will go down. I'd only qualify for a /28 block of IPs, is there any way I can get bgp routing at my shop? I'm willing to read all the info I need, and have an interest in this area anyway... This message isn't meant to start a flame war about DSL reliability, as even with fiber it is recommended to multi-home. DNS round-robin will do 80% of the job, but there will be intermittent access when one of the links goes down. I've considered getting an account on a remote server, and just forward the connections here, but that defeats the whole purpose of having the server local. Is there anything I'm missing? TIA, Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
