Re: Pipeline internet help

[Peter Billson <pete@elbnet.com>]

Johnno,
  That depends on where the second pipe is coming from. If it is coming
from a different NOC of the same upstream company then they should take
care of all the messy routing details.
  
 If you use multiple providers then use BGP to provide multiple routes
for your IP blocks.   Your upstream should be able to help you with
this.

  BTW - be sure that your redundant connection is truly redundant. Here
in the US many providers rent equipment space in the telcos office so
one fire in a telco can take out all the different providers. You backup
connection should take a *completely* different route from start to end,
including the wires to your building (of course a totally separate
building is even better :-) otherwise a single falling tree somewhere
along the path could eliminate both connections.

Pete
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Johnno wrote:
> 
> Hello All,
> 
> At the moment the servers I ran has only one pipline to the net, Now I am
> looking at adding other one as a backup..
> 
> How do I go about make the second as a backup so if the first goes down the
> second will take over??
> 
> Then when the first one goes back online that will be used putting the
> second back into backup
> 
> will our ip addresses work with both feeds?
> 
> Thanks,
>                 Johnno
> 
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