Re: solving problems instead of beating heads on walls [was: something about arrogance]

["C. Jon Larsen" <jlarsen () richweb com>]

Setup a gre tunnel as your backup "path" for when the physical link goes 
down between Ottawa-Toronto if you can't afford a backup physical link.


On Sat, 27 Jul 2002, Ralph Doncaster wrote:

> > On Sat, 27 Jul 2002, Ralph Doncaster wrote:
> >
> > > And your assumption about my Ottawa-Toronto link is wrong.  I have a 100M
> > > point-to-point ethernet link between the cities.  I have a 100M transit
> > > connection to Peer1 in Toronto, and have issued a letter of intent to a
> > > transit provider in Ottawa for a 100M link.
> >
> > Ralph, if you have a 100m link between the two cities, why don't you use
> > conditional announcements to only announce your /20 though Ottawa if your
> > primary transit in Toronto goes down? Then, you only need to announce your
> > /20 in Toronto, no need to deaggregate, and the whole issue is solved.
> >
> > Then, when you have the Ottawa 100m transit link up, you can announce your
> > /20 to both transit providers all the time.
>
> That is roughly the intention.  I also have to be able to announce the
> more specifics for when the Ottawa-Toronto link goes down.  You could find
> in the archives my posts from a couple months back asking how to do this.
>
> -Ralph

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