Strange practices?

Mon Jun 7 21:49:46 UTC 2010

"Has anyone ever heard of a multi-homed enterprise not running bgp with
either of 2 providers, but instead, each provider statically routes a block
to their common customer and also each originates this block in BGP?”

As stated before...yes this is a common practice.

"One of the ISP's in this case owns the block and has even provided a letter of
authorization to the other, allowing them to announce it in BGP as well.”

Yes, one ISP owns the block, both will aggregate the blocks and announce the blocks to the global internet. BGP attributes will shape best path for routing; i.e., AS-PATH, ORIGIN, LOCAL PREF. MEDS should take care of "leaking" routes. 

So, is this design scheme viable? Yes, it is.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Dale Cornman [mailto:bstymied at gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 2:50 PM
To: nanog at nanog.org
Subject: Strange practices?

Has anyone ever heard of a multi-homed enterprise not running bgp with
either of 2 providers, but instead, each provider statically routes a block
to their common customer and also each originates this block in BGP?   One
of the ISP's in this case owns the block and has even provided a letter of
authorization to the other, allowing them to announce it in BGP as well.
  I had personally never heard of this and am curious if this is a common
practice as well as if this would potentially create any problems by 2
Autonomous Systems both originating the same prefix.

Thanks

-Bill

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