July 2004
Intermediate to advanced
448 pages
10h 7m
English
Generally, for smaller companies not heavily dependent on their Internet connection, simply connecting to one service provider at one location, which is typically referred to as single homing, is sufficient. If losing that single connection to the Internet causes your business to stop functioning in some way—you regularly communicate with a large number of customers through e-mail or sell things on a Web server at your location, for instance—then single homing probably isn't a good option.
Single homed networks don't need to run BGP at all. The service provider can use a statically configured route to reach your addresses, and you can configure a static default route that passes all traffic to otherwise unknown ...
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