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Re: Does anyone multihome anymore? (was: Re: Cogent latency / congestion)


From: Mike Tancsa <mike () sentex net>
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 09:46:16 -0400


At 03:49 AM 8/22/2007, Security Admin (NetSec) wrote:

Pardon my forwardness, but don't people just multi-home these days?  If your

Multihoming is great for when there is a total outage. In the case of Cogent on Monday, it wasnt "down"... In this case, there is only so much you can do to influence how packets come back at you as BGP doesnt know anything about a "lossy" or slow connections.

---Mike

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