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<DIV><SPAN class=036565914-04012002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>F5
announced a new product which will apparently accomplish the same thing,
although there are no technical documents available for it
yet...</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=036565914-04012002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>-Lee</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> James Smith
[mailto:jsmith@PRESIDIO.com]<BR><B>Sent:</B> January 3, 2002 5:43
PM<BR><B>To:</B> nanog@merit.edu<BR><B>Subject:</B> FATPipe vs.
BGP<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<P><FONT size=2>Anyone deploy FATPipe boxes yet? Just got through a preso
about it, they bill it as a highly survivable VPN solution, but also as a way
of getting multiple inbound/outbound/backup pipes to work from multiple
providers without having to use BGP.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>They actually use DNS with a short TTL (under 10 seconds) to
do the failover on inbound. With failover related to TTL, I can guess which
way the users want the knob to turn...</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>My concern is the need for the box to be your primary
(authoritative) DNS in this role, with no secondary DNS support (available in
the 2.0 release, I was told). No need to tell me how bad of an idea this is,
what I'm looking for is actual "by golly, we did it, and this is what we ran
into" stories. Especially from multi-site, multi-sub-domain sites.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>I bet it is a pain to keep all those primary DNS servers in
sync...</FONT> </P>
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href="http:\\www.fatpipeinc.com">http:\\www.fatpipeinc.com</A></FONT> </P>
<P><FONT size=2>James H. Smith II NNCDS NNCSE</FONT> <BR><FONT
size=2>Systems Engineer</FONT> <BR><FONT size=2>The Presidio
Corporation</FONT> <BR><FONT size=2><include> fancy.sig</FONT>
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