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?
Our primary objective with a change to multihoming was to force our existing carrier to meet the price for International bandwidth being offered by another. Asking them to bring the price down did not work. You have to be multihomed and be sending service orders to reduce bandwidth to get their attention. Having said that, we have enjoyed the fault tolerance benefit twice since making the transition. Peter Mott Chief Enthusiast 2DAY INTERNET LIMITED It's kind of fun to do the impossible - Walt Disney -/- - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog