Colin Alston wrote:
On 2008/11/04 10:32 PM Charles Wyble wrote:
Obviously as they are consumer connections, I wouldn't get a BGP feed
so would need to download a copy, which has the risk of stale data.
Perhaps some sort of multihop BGP setup?
I have done some research and found a lot of references to small site
multihoming without BGP for link redundancy but not for traffic
engineering.
I've played with that before. Essentially just EBGP Multi-hop with
next-hop rewrites on various community prefixes. Of course I had
access to a donor feed, that is probably the largest hurdle.
My first job was at a place with a direct ARIN allocation and BGP to
Sprint and AT&T. I'm still friends with the remaining ops person and can
probably setup a peering session with him. I also have another buddy
with the ability to do BGP via Cogent.
There is good use in general for a public no-distribute feed but I
have yet to find such a thing. Is there a reason for that, or could I
bribe my datacenter to give me a feed and then create my own public
server with some el-cheapo Quagga and a bag of rainbows for hope?
Good question. Perhaps I could peer with my above mentioned sources and
http://www.quagga.net/route-server.php or http://www.routeviews.org/
(config instructions at http://www.routeviews.org/config.html)
That would be a fairly diverse set of views and hopefully sufficient for
my needs.
By the way I have a wiki page up with the details (more or less what I
outlined already) at http://www.socalwifi.net/index.php/Mesh_Experiment
I will write everything up there as well as post back results here.
