Multihoming for the small ISP ( search engine) ala 2005

Tue Mar 1 16:34:30 UTC 2005

> As long as they have a /24 that they can announce, two or more upstreams
> that are able and willing to establish BGP sessions with them and a router
> with enough memory to hold at least 2 full views (for a Cisco, you
> probably want 256MB or more these days), they can multi (or dual) home.

They many not need anything near 2 full tables. A default plus providers own
and customer routes
could do, and would require less memory/smaller router.

James H. Edwards
Routing and Security Administrator
At the Santa Fe Office: Internet at Cyber Mesa
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