For the folks asking what island. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magdalen_Islands http://www.panoramio.com/user/45210
We are hiring if someone is interested :) It's not like the Bahamas. I wish it was. It's alot colder here. I've talked to ISP1 yesterday and they will let me know what they can do. There's a chance... I will also have to scale up. I don't think my Soekris with OpenBSD can handle two full route of the Internet. Any suggestions ? Charles On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 7:16 AM, Elmar K. Bins <e...@4ever.de> wrote: > Re Charles, > > this is all about control, so you don't lose connectivity in case something > outside your control fails. > > The best idea so far is the ebgp-multihop idea with your ISP's transit > provider. This means speaking BGP to them yourself and taking care that > the traffic takes the intended path, too (will usually work). > > If you can spare the money, I'd set up my own hubs on the "mainland", > tunnel to them through each of my ISPs and use that hub for the > routing of all incoming traffic. This does of course mean additional > hardware, housing, local loops and probably additional transit > providers. It would nonetheless give you full control. > > The second best idea so far is that the NANOG people could "talk" to > your ISP(s)...this has worked in more than one case. > > So - where is your island, how's the weather, and are you hiring? ;-) > > Yours, > Elmar. >
