From: Joe A (GroupStudy@xxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Tue Jul 23 2002 - 11:16:32 GMT-3
I don't see how you can do this effectively and efficiently without BGP and
a routing policy to direct where your traffic is to enter and exit your
organization. A floating static will work fine for outbound traffic, but
has no effect whatsoever where the traffic comes into your network. Traffic
is probably coming in through each of the links, not just the one you think
you've designated as the primary link.
- Joe
-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com]On Behalf Of
Bill Mckenzie
Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 9:04 AM
To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: OT: Multihoming to two ISP's
We currently have two T1's to an ISP and a backup T1 to a different ISP.
The backup is only to kick in when the others go down via a floating static
route. When monitoring the links, it shows that there is nothing
transmitting out on the line, but we have periods of 97% utilization
receiving on the line. It follows peak periods of what would be Internet
usage (morning=10%, afternoon=97-99%, evening=15%) All of this is received
traffic. Our ISP said that they were sending only about 500 routes to us,
and when he did a test, it went through the correct ISP to get to us, not
his own.
Does anyone have any ideas about this? I'm just afraid if our main links
went down, the backup would be so saturated from receiving on the line AND
transmitting that it would be useless.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Bill
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