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Re: wet-behind-the-ears whippersnapper seeking advice on building a nationwide network
From: Brett Frankenberger <rbf+nanog () panix com>
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 16:19:19 -0500
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 04:13:57PM -0400, Dorn Hetzel wrote:
"full time connection to two or more providers" should be satisfied when the network involved has (or has contracted for and will have) two or more connections that are diverse from each other at ANY point in their path between the end network location or locations and the far end BGP peers, whether or not the two or more connections are exposed to one or more common points of failure, as long as their are any failure modes for which one connection can provide protection against that failure mode somewhere in the other connection.
The GRE tunnel configuration being discussed in this thread passes this test. Consider the following: ISP #1 has transit connections to upstream A and B. ISP #2 has transit connections to upstream C and D ISP 1 and ISP 2 peer. Customer gets a connection to ISP #1 and runs BGP, and, over that connection, establishes a GRE tunnel to ISP #2, and runs BGP over that also. I assume your last clause requires that each connection provide protection against a failure more in the other connection (not just that one of the two provide protection against a failure mode on the other). This is satisfied. In my example: ISP #1 provides protection against ISP #2 having a complete meltdown. ISP #2 provides protection against ISP #1 losing both its upstream connections. -- Brett
Current thread:
- Re: wet-behind-the-ears whippersnapper seeking advice on building a nationwide network, (continued)
- Re: wet-behind-the-ears whippersnapper seeking advice on building a nationwide network Dorn Hetzel (Sep 20)
- Re: wet-behind-the-ears whippersnapper seeking advice on building a nationwide network Seth Mattinen (Sep 20)
- Re: wet-behind-the-ears whippersnapper seeking advice on building a nationwide network Owen DeLong (Sep 20)
- Re: wet-behind-the-ears whippersnapper seeking advice on building a nationwide network Patrick W. Gilmore (Sep 20)
- Re: wet-behind-the-ears whippersnapper seeking advice on building a nationwide network Chris Adams (Sep 20)
- Re: wet-behind-the-ears whippersnapper seeking advice on building a nationwide network Patrick W. Gilmore (Sep 20)
- Re: wet-behind-the-ears whippersnapper seeking advice on building a nationwide network Dorn Hetzel (Sep 20)
- Re: wet-behind-the-ears whippersnapper seeking advice on building a nationwide network Valdis . Kletnieks (Sep 20)
- What's a reasonable attack surface? (was: Re: wet-behind-the-ears whippersnapper yada yada) Jay Ashworth (Sep 20)
- Re: What's a reasonable attack surface? (was: Re: wet-behind-the-ears whippersnapper yada yada) Keegan Holley (Sep 21)
- Re: wet-behind-the-ears whippersnapper seeking advice on building a nationwide network Brett Frankenberger (Sep 20)
- Re: wet-behind-the-ears whippersnapper seeking advice on building a nationwide network Dorn Hetzel (Sep 20)
- Re: wet-behind-the-ears whippersnapper seeking advice on building a nationwide network Owen DeLong (Sep 20)
- Re: wet-behind-the-ears whippersnapper seeking advice on building a nationwide network Matthew Kaufman (Sep 20)
- Re: wet-behind-the-ears whippersnapper seeking advice on building a nationwide network -- ENOUGH ALREADY! Bill P (Sep 20)
- Re: wet-behind-the-ears whippersnapper seeking advice on building a nationwide network -- ENOUGH ALREADY! Bret Palsson (Sep 20)
- Re: wet-behind-the-ears whippersnapper seeking advice on building a nationwide network -- ENOUGH ALREADY! Charles N Wyble (Sep 21)
- Re: wet-behind-the-ears whippersnapper seeking advice on building a nationwide network Jon Lewis (Sep 20)
- Re: wet-behind-the-ears whippersnapper seeking advice on building a nationwide network Owen DeLong (Sep 20)
- Re: wet-behind-the-ears whippersnapper seeking advice on building a nationwide network Jay Ashworth (Sep 20)
- Re: wet-behind-the-ears whippersnapper seeking advice on building a nationwide network Matthew Kaufman (Sep 19)