That's all I wanted to know!! Thanks! :) Now all I have to do is find a
way to convince the Boss of this! :)
On Fri, 13 Mar 1998, Jim Van Baalen wrote:
:>
:> He have a 7206 doing EVERYTHING. OSPF, Static, E/iBGP and firewalling.
:> I'm kicking my boss to get another router and leave the 7206 as a border
:> router and get a 7505 or 7507 as an internal core router. He is concerned
:> with physical hops as customers hate to see hops. I heard that their is a
:> way to "Tunnel" two routers or two interfaces together to make it seem
:> "invisible" to a traceroute. Is this possible?! Is it worth while? I'm
:
:Yes it is possible.
:
:I don't believe that it is appropriate for your application. Tunneling
:is CPU intensive. Your customers will probably see much better performance
:if you just add a second router. In my opinion the entire router hop
:discussion is uninteresting, a single overburdened router will often
:add much more latency than two happy routers. The percentage of overall
:latency added by happy routers to a wide area network is minimal.
:
:Jim
:
-- Regards,Jason A. Lixfeld jlixfeld@idirect.ca System Administrator [L5] jlixfeld@torontointernetxchange.net
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