failover via comcast tunnel?

bzs at theworld.com bzs at theworld.com
Fri Dec 18 18:44:36 UTC 2015


FWIW we do expect to pay for this service, by "cheap" I just meant,
well, cheap, but not free. It's all relative I suppose.

But thanks for the response thus far!

On December 17, 2015 at 16:15 mhoppes at indigowireless.com (Matt Hoppes) wrote:
 > You could tunnel to a data center. 
 > 
 > Or NAT out their service. 
 > 
 > Tunneling via EoIP would allow you to stay within their ToS. 
 > 
 > > On Dec 17, 2015, at 16:01, bzs at theworld.com wrote:
 > > 
 > > 
 > > I'm looking at some sort of 50-100mbps failover link in case my
 > > primary is down.
 > > 
 > > My options seem limited particularly since I'm cheap.
 > > 
 > > I see Comcast has unlimited data business links in this range but I'm
 > > not sure I'd want to deal with the management issue of BGP or swapping
 > > ip blocks etc with them in an emergency. I just tried calling their
 > > business sales line and after the initial "Thank you for calling
 > > Comcast Business Services etc" it dropped me...three times. Yeah, that
 > > builds confidence.
 > > 
 > > So I'm thinking something more like using their service as a raw
 > > bandwidth pipe and tunneling to an actual route provider?
 > > 
 > > Crazy? Anyone done anything like this? Are there tools for that?
 > > Other, similar suggestions?
 > > 
 > > Feel free contact me off-list.
 > > 
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