I am planning on using more then 1 dedicated connection. I know BGP4 is a solution but it's going to be complicated to setup and manage. I ended up buying the Extreme Networks Summit48 switch. It doesn't do BGP4.

I have found a product made by radware. Its called the linkproof. It's suppose to do a job similar to BGP4 but not sure how well it really performs.

Does anyone have experience with the linkproof?

My suggestion would be to hire yourself a network engineer to get you set-up. BGP can get very, very complicated and you can actually broadcast the wrong routes of other people's IP space causing a big mess.

If it were me, I would take the Extreme 48 back and get the 48i with will do BGP so you don't have to purchase another box just for BGP.

Originally posted by RackMy.com
My suggestion would be to hire yourself a network engineer to get you set-up. BGP can get very, very complicated and you can actually broadcast the wrong routes of other people's IP space causing a big mess.

If it were me, I would take the Extreme 48 back and get the 48i with will do BGP so you don't have to purchase another box just for BGP.

Yeah I found out that BGP4 is very complicated so I decided to get the basic summit48 and get a device thats designed to do bgp4. It can take up to 10 connections and makes bgp4 simple. I just want to know if anyone has experience with it. I want to know how easy it really is to use.

Good luck :)

Originally posted by ClusterMania
BGP4 is very complicated

Is it? Really? A quick glance at the RFC suggests that it is much simpler than, say, HTTP. But people don't seem to have much concern about setting up and running a web server on their own.

Originally posted by cperciva


Is it? Really? A quick glance at the RFC suggests that it is much simpler than, say, HTTP. But people don't seem to have much concern about setting up and running a web server on their own.

Yeah, I was told BGP4 would be much easier to manager since I would be able to control it through a webbrowser. Heres the product link

http://www.radware.com/content/products/link.htm

Heres a review on it. Too bad it seems like nobody on WHT has had a chance to try it out

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/05-21-2001/0001497820&EDATE=

It's easy until you start advertising routes other than your own! I know a guy who goofed and actually started to advertise routes for the whole Internet and it screwed up AT&T's network pretty bad for about 1 hour. Then I have seen a guy who advertised all thier OC3 routes to a 56K leased line, ugly.

BGP and a web browser, I have seen it all! :)

Originally posted by RackMy.com
I know a guy who goofed and actually started to advertise routes for the whole Internet and it screwed up AT&T's network pretty bad for about 1 hour.

To be fair, that's as much a goof on AT&T's part as anything else. Anyone accepting BGP routes should at very least perform basic sanity checking, and should really perform some authentication as well. If AT&T's BGP gateways were set up properly they would have not only ignored the bogus route but also sent an email to an administrator to notify them of the problem.

It was actually a tech at AT&T that did that. :)

hey..
good luck.. sounds tough