[Cialug] multi-homed apache ssl

[Dave Hala Jr]

I had a teleconference with CenturyLink yesterday and sounds like this
will be pretty straightforward.. We'll see how it goes....





On Fri, 2011-11-11 at 09:22 -0800, Aaron Porter wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 11:08 AM, L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:
> > You have to use your own public IPs, you can't use a Quest IP, for
> > example, over an ATT route. Once you own your own IPs, they can be
> > advertised by any upstream ISP.
> 
> This is only true for political reasons, and most ISPs will
> (reluctantly) announce a subnet from a competetor for you, with any
> number of caveats about actually getting it working. They'll probably
> say no, but keep asking... that no just means "I've never been asked
> before". As others have said -- working with anything smaller than a
> /24 is going to be super painful and you're going to have to get the
> "owner" of the IPs to document the fact you have their permission to
> announce on another route before your backup ISP is likely to do it,
> and they might ask you to renumber.
> 
> You'll still need an ASN, but that's a lot easier/cheaper than getting
> an IPv4 block of your own from ARIN.
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