Re: Aggregating channels...

[Måns Nilsson <mansaxel@sunet.se>]

--On Friday, December 14, 2001 15:48:46 -0800 Tiberius <tiberius@nc.rr.com>
wrote:

> Did anyone find or is anyone working on a way to do this (aggregating over
> seperate lines to distinct providers without assistance of the upstream
> providers)?

The canonical answer is, as has been said, "BGP". And this involves the
upstreams, and at quite a level too -- most ISP's have a quite small team
doing BGP. 

Any solution that does not involve BGP or similar is likely to smell very
badly from NAT, application gateways, and similarly evil things. I would
not go that route if I could avoid it. Also, I'd be very surprised if you
were able to get hold of PI adress space (Provider Independent, ie adress
space not associated with a specific LIR, local internet registry). PI
space is IMNSHO a requirement if you want to multihome. 

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Måns Nilsson            Systems Specialist
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