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Re: Network Backhaul Fallback and Redundancy
said by John Galt  :Does this all still apply if I have two separate providers? No, it gets much more tricky. Each provider would be giving you a range of addresses. The network you've described looks too small to be doing BGP with your upstreams. I would say if you want multiple providers, bring them to a central point (your datacenter) and run BGP with two providers there. Then within your own network use OSPF to handle failover between multiple backhauls to your datacenter and your PoP(s). OSPF is probably the easiest link state protocol to setup, and it works extremely well. You will need "real" routers if you don't want to pull your hair out with OSPF (unless your routers are OpenBSD, which has a very nice ospfd implementation).
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