Re: [FW-1] How to connecto to 2 ISP's?

[Bob Brandt <bbbrandt@FW1-NOSPAM3M.COM>]

BGP is really the only general purpose solution.    Products like radware
may address the problem for an inbound web site, but if you
want highavailability for any service, you really need to route, and
preferably do it with at least 2 different ISPs.    Picking a big one, which
won't go out of business is not as easy as it would appear.   Take Worldcom
(uunet) for example, and you'll probably agree.

If you use BGP, you'll also be able to take advantage of a new class of
performance optimization products, a company called routescience has such a
product, although its probably a lot cheaper to just through T3s at the
problem.

Bob Brandt, 3M, bbbrandt@mmm.com


----- Original Message -----
From: "Nico De Ranter" <nico@SONYCOM.COM>
To: <FW-1-MAILINGLIST@beethoven.us.checkpoint.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 1:43 AM
Subject: Re: [FW-1] How to connecto to 2 ISP's?


> On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 09:24:37AM -0700, Ramesh Ragineni wrote:
> >
> >
> > I totally agree with this solution: Instead of going to two different
ISP, I
> > would say going through a Larger ISP with two different POP locations,
will
> > give pretty much good redundancy and BGP will be much much cheaper for
you
> > to use. You can do lot of things like secure redundancy, spliting the
> > traffic or diverting in incoming and out going traffic, VPN traffic
...etc.
> > This solution, Iam in a process of implementing using UUNET two
different
> > POP locations with BGP next week. I have taken this decission, after
going
> > through lot of research.
> >
>
> Using two connections to the same ISP will give good redundancy in case
one
> of the connections goes down however it won't help if your ISP goes
bankrupt.
> And that's currently my major concern :-(
>
> Nico
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