Re: Handling Site Outages

BGP, Border Gateway Protocol.  Any decent data center has it.  Border
Gateway Protocol is a system of peering routers that exchange pre-specified
routing tables sharing a common protocol, IGP.   The most common
application/benefit  would be multihoming a network for better redundancy.
Typically BGP is done with Cisco's 7200 Series, Juniper M20 Series...

When using commercial software the router must have a license for BGP and it
needs to be licensed for this feature.

It's cheaper to collocate in a data center that does offer BGP, since they
already have fiber diversity and are multihomed upstream. 

Tony Costa
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Subject: Re: [WEB400] Handling Site Outages

Of course this isn't something you're likely to do unless you really

need it, and have the infrastructure to handle it.

Well I could certainly use it but the infrastructure is (almost)
non-existent.  SO doesn't look like it is a solution.

I'd never heard of BGP before - guess I should check up on it.

Jon Paris
Partner400

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