[c-nsp] Inbound redundancy with two ISPs

[The Father]

Is multihoming a valid reason even if they can't justify a /24 worth of 
IP addresses?  I would have thought that ASNs were hard to get since 
there's a finite number of them (currently anyways).

Oh and I forgot to mention in my original post that is there still a 
valid solution if BGP is not an option?

Jose

P.S. Thanks for the replies so far guys.

Edward A. Trdina III wrote:
> Well, need more info... They have to have at least a /24 from that
> provider, and then both ISPs should be willing to do BGP on their (the
> customers behalf).  Otherwise, they should spply for an ASN from the
> RiR.  Multihoming is a valid reason for an ASN per ARIN. 
>
>
> Regards,
>  
> Edward A. Trdina III
>  
> Senior Network/Systems Engineer
>  
> Clayton Kendall, Inc.
> 150 West Street
> East Pittsburgh, PA 15112
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of The Father
> Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 8:45 AM
> To: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Subject: [c-nsp] Inbound redundancy with two ISPs
>
> One of our customers is looking to us to provide a failover method for
> their two internet access links.  Normally this wouldn't be a problem
> but the customer has public IPs that were assigned to them from ISP-A
> (we're ISP-B) and they use them for servers behind ISP-B's connection.  
> They would like it so that when ISP-A goes down, the link that we
> provide becomes primary and inbound and outbound traffic.  Does anyone
> know of a Cisco (or other vendor) solution that could take care of this?
> I've tried explaining that for customers in these situations, BGP and
> public ASN/CIDR blocks are what's normally required for this to work.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Jose
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