An interesting article on using VPN for mobile IP with 802.11b, etc.: http://www.embedded.com/story/OEG20010628S0054 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Austad, Jay" <austad at marketwatch.com> To: <tcwug-list at tcwug.org> Sent: Friday, July 26, 2002 9:17 AM Subject: RE: service offerings (was: Re: [TCWUG] Richochet boxes?) > > > BGP is typically used as an external routing protocol. The only > > > reason you would want to run BGP internally is if you have a large > > > network with internet connections all over in different > > places, then > > > you could propagate your BGP tables internally and traffic would > > > always leave the network at the best internet connection > > for the network you are trying to reach. > > > > you know, that does actually sound like what we're > > trying to do. :) (at least as I see it). > > Yeah, but the problem here is that you are unlikely to convince your ISP to > give you a BGP session over your DSL or cable modem. So running BGP on your > internal network will do you no good if you can't get tables from the > outside world. We'd need to get a bunch of T1's for this to work. Also, > we'd need to get routers which could actually run BGP without pegging the > CPU, and lots of memory or we'll have to summarize the tables quite a bit. > Zebra supports BGP, but in my experience, Zebra is flaky. I haven't used > BGP with it, but with OSPF and RIP, it has problems. > > Jay > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Wireless Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.tcwug.org > tcwug-list at tcwug.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tcwug-list >