Enterprise Multihoming

Fri Mar 12 19:05:10 UTC 2004

Most of the multi-homing talk has been about failover capabilities 
between different providers.  What about the effects of multiple 
providers when neither has actually failed; such as different paths for 
inbound/outbound traffic.  One provider may have better connectivity to 
x site whereas the other provider has better connectivity to y.  (Or is 
this not as important as it used to be?)

On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 09:15:55AM -0700, John Neiberger wrote:

> In our case, we already are multihoming and I'm considering moving away
> from that to a simpler solution. It's been my assertion that we didn't
> need to multihome in the beginning. The decision was made at a level
> higher than me. However, now that we have it I'm trying to determine the
> pros and cons related to moving to a single provider.