Non-ISP companies multi-homing?

Gordon Mercer gmercer at dn.net
Thu Jul 24 15:40:29 UTC 1997


>
> >Supposing to have IBGP to one ISP (to avoid assigning of
> >independent AS) and EBGP to the second ISP, again will
> >my router announce the /24 inside of the first ISP
> >address block to the EBGP peer ??
>
> Interesting approach. In general, the ISPs I know would
> be reluctant to run iBGP with a customer, unless they had
> total control of all BGP speakers. If I understand you
> correctly, the enterprise would have to tag its
> advertisements to the second ISP with the ASN of the
> first, since the enterprise doesn't have its own. Again,
> I think most ISPs would be reluctant to give up this
> amount of control.

Without the ISP having total control over the customer  
router, a misconfiguration of filters on the customer side  
could easily cause the customer to be a valid (and 1 hop)  
path in the tables from ISP A to ISP B. Doesn't sound  
like a possibility I would be willing to have hanging over  
my head.



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