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Re: IP failover/migration question.
From: infowolfe <infowolfe () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 11:04:25 -0700
On 6/27/06, Owen DeLong <owen () delong com> wrote:
> Uptime might not matter for small hosts that do mom and pop websites > or so-called "beta" blog-toys, but every time Level3 takes a dump, > it's my wallet that feels the pain. It's actually a rather frustrating > situation for people who aren't big enough to justify a /19 and an > AS#, but require geographically dispersed locations answering on the > same IP(s). I'm not sure why you think you need to be that big to get portable IP space. Policy 2002-3 allows for the issuance of a /22 to any organization which can show a need and the ability to utilize at least 50% of a /22 with multihoming. An ASN can be obtained pretty easily if you intend to multihome. About the only thing that might stand in the way of a small organization is the up front cost, but, even that is less than $2000.
It's entirely possible that I was mistaken with regards to /19 vs /22, but a /22 is still way more ips than I really need, I mean hell, I'm not really using my /24 currently. I don't nearly have 256 machines, and I certainly (without honepotting almost all of it) justify 1,024 ips. In fact, in my network infrastructure currently, I've got one loadbalancer that sits in front of 6 machines that don't have public ips, so there goes any thought of justification ;-) and yet, when I'm at 4 load balancers, I'll want them in geographically dispersed locations, with a variety of upstream providers so that I don't have to deal with the issues surrounding single-homed networking.
Current thread:
- Re: IP failover/migration question., (continued)
- Re: IP failover/migration question. Christopher L. Morrow (Jun 11)
- Re: IP failover/migration question. Andrew Warfield (Jun 11)
- Re: IP failover/migration question. Andy Davidson (Jun 27)
- Re: IP failover/migration question. Valdis . Kletnieks (Jun 27)
- Re: IP failover/migration question. Patrick W. Gilmore (Jun 27)
- Re: IP failover/migration question. infowolfe (Jun 27)
- Re: IP failover/migration question. Randy Bush (Jun 27)
- Re: IP failover/migration question. Patrick W. Gilmore (Jun 27)
- Re: IP failover/migration question. david raistrick (Jun 27)
- Re: IP failover/migration question. Owen DeLong (Jun 27)
- Re: IP failover/migration question. infowolfe (Jun 27)
- Re: IP failover/migration question. Andy Davidson (Jun 27)
- Re: IP failover/migration question. Christopher L. Morrow (Jun 12)
- Re: IP failover/migration question. Patrick W. Gilmore (Jun 27)