The short story behind this deployment is that Charle's infrastructure
is at the tail end of a submarine cable on an island, where there is
only 1 competitor, but the ILEC, on the island side of the submarine
cable.
The ILEC owns the submarine cable
But the ILEC will not do BGP
The competitor will do BGP
But the the ILEC will not do BGP
Because the ILEC has yet to do BGP with anyone in its serving
territory. Its a SMALL ILEC which does not have ISP customers wishing
to do BGP elsewhere in its territory.
I have told Charles that should he wish to complain to the regulator,
to force the ILEC to do BGP, then we would help him.
His question is rather - how to do multihoming on the same /22, when
one the two upstream ISPs, will not do BGP.
And the obvious answer is, S.O.L.
The not so obvious answer, is ANYONE OUT THERE knows how to do
multihoming without BGP on one of the two legs...
F.
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François D. Ménard
franc...@menards.ca
On 13-Feb-09, at 7:01 PM, Michael Smith wrote:
And/or see if bell canada can sell you something diverse.
----- Original Message -----
From: Seth Mattinen <se...@rollernet.us>
To: Charles Regan <charles.re...@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org <nanog@nanog.org>
Sent: Fri Feb 13 18:58:54 2009
Subject: Re: One /22 Two ISP no BGP
Charles Regan wrote:
The problem we have now is that we got our /22 from arin to do
multihoming.
If we dump tlb, no more multihoming? No /22. Is that correct?
We also have a contract with tlb.
$$$ 1.5yrs left...
There's something in there about non-multihomed sites, but I'm not
familiar with it. Telebec doesn't appear to be multihomed, though.
The only other thing I can think of to avoid horrible hackery is to
convince them to colo a router for you to do eBGP to. Honestly, I
wouldn't recommend multihoming *without* BGP. One day you'll end up
with
some really ugly failure mode.
~Seth
