On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 02:33:58PM -0700, Amir Nazary wrote:
> I understand this issue - you are quite correct.  In many instances, the 
> ip addresses assigned by service providers are not BGP'able with public 
> ASN.   One can use private ASN(from service provider) on those internal 
> IP addresses, but that leads to a whole other can of worms.  Plus, there 
> is some value in simple fault tolerance as I've outlined because a lot 
> of individuals are in the same predicament as I am, and setting up BGP 
> is not feasible.  Also, I think based on my experience, often the 
> bandwidth failure is not upstream, but the uplink, and hence a simple 
> failover mechanism is good.  Simple Load balancing across two links 
> should be made available though - I don't think it would be too 
> difficult to implement?

For Load balancing I don't know, but I think you can do simple failover
with gated. Or you can write your own script, which tests the link and move
the default route as appropriate.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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