Re: "Simple" Multi-Homing ? (was Re: CIDR Report)

[woods () weird com (Greg A. Woods)]

[ On Friday, May 19, 2000 at 00:04:30 (-0400), Todd Sandor wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: "Simple" Multi-Homing ? (was Re: CIDR Report)
>
> Here is how I understand it:

[[ followed by lots of ifs and buts ]]

Yup, and you're still really only protecting just your local loop and
that can be done a hell of a lot more reliably, and probably cheaper,
with physical-layer equipment and no handwaving with routing protocols.

You'd be far better off with a fall-back ISDN PRI, or wireless,
connection to your same primary ISP.  At least then you'll still be on
the air to 100% of the Internet even though at degraded performance
(which is something you can manage by reducing the bandwidth
requirements of your application when such things happen, perhaps by
dropping all the graphics in favour of a single "TV test-screen" logo or
something!  ;-)

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