[c-nsp] IP SLA?

[Mark Tinka]

On 24/Mar/15 14:27, Dan Brisson wrote:
> I'm curious what folks do in the situation where you have redundant 
> links to your customers.  I'm speaking primarily in co-lo environments 
> where you offer redundant Internet connectivity to co-lo customers.  
> So for example, you give a customer 2 ethernet handoffs from two 
> separate Layer 2 switches.   Now what do you do if the customer wants 
> to go to a routed model using both links.  I could allocate /30s for 
> both links, but then I have the issue of how to reliably route their 
> block to them w/out running a routing protocol that will detect if one 
> of the links goes down.  That's where I came to static routes with IP 
> SLA but I wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something easier.

BFD for static routing, if you and they support it.

Mark.