On Sun, 2 Dec 2001, Joe Abley wrote:
On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 02:02:38PM -0800, cfb wrote:
What strikes me as slightly odd is that most people who say they want to multihome for "fault tolerance/redundancy purposes" will reveal to you, under intense questioning, that what they *actually* want to do is load balancing.
Is load balancing really ever the ultimate objective, or is it merely a requirement of the multihoming architecture?
A small ISP has 2*T1s with an upstream, During peak time they use around 2.5Mb/s . The contract for one of these runs out and the boss finds another vendor who offers them a T1 for half the price of the original upstream. They are now multihomed and their primary objective is to ensure their 2.5Mb/s of peak bandwandith is blanced between the two T1's to ensure good customer service. They do not see fault tolerance as an important objective since they have good service from their current provider and their new provider has a good reputation as well. The boss is just happy cause he saided a load of cash and everything works okay with two providers. -- Simon Lyall. | Newsmaster | Work: simon.lyall(a)ihug.co.nz Senior Network/System Admin | Postmaster | Home: simon(a)darkmere.gen.nz ihug, Auckland, NZ | Asst Doorman | Web: http://www.darkmere.gen.nz - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog