Practical BGP

Dual Homing to a Single Service Provider

If your connection to the Internet is more critical and your business has more than one location, then you can also connect to the same Internet service provider from two different locations, or perhaps to two different points in the same service provider's network. Figure 2.1 illustrates both of these connection situations.

Figure 2.1. Dual homing to a single service provider.

Advantages

The first advantage of dual homing into a single service provider is that it's easy. There's only one set of technical support engineers to deal with, one set of salespeople to deal with (that should cut the number of ...