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Opinions about InterNAP
From: "Seth M. Kusiak" <seth.kusiak () yours4less com>
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 18:42:43 GMT
I've been told by many that most national providers filter any prefix greater then a /20 such as sprint and verio.
-Seth David McGaugh writes:
/24's are sufficient to multihome with most if not all providers out there. Why not conventionally multi-home to 2 large well establishedproviders? -Dave"Seth M. Kusiak" wrote:HiWe have a small network (5 /24s) and we need to host our web applications internally because they access backend servers that absolutely cannot be collocated. I am thinking about getting 2 T1s or fractional DS3s from InterNAP from different P-NAPS (1 from Philly and 1 from NY) each circuitfrom a different COThe reason that Im thinking InterNAP is because we dont qualify for a /20 and we would not be able to efficiently multi-home. It seems that InterNAP is perfect in our situation because they buy transit from multiple providersand claim to not have any black holes in their network. I hear many great things about InterNAP and I hear the opposite as well. Any thoughts would GREATLY be appreciated Thanks!-Seth
Current thread:
- Opinions about InterNAP Seth M. Kusiak (Jun 13)
- Re: Opinions about InterNAP Jonathan Disher (Jun 13)
- Prefix-legth FUD (was: Re: Opinions about InterNAP) Tony Tauber (Jun 13)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Opinions about InterNAP Avi Freedman (Jun 18)