In message <lkq8tr$rpo$> Not just ISPs, either. Many small businesses have two connections to the Internet and a router that splits the traffic. A decent load balancing/bonding router costs less than $1500. I doubt it. Peering arrangements have *always* been completely secret unless the peering was between public institutions. Back in the days before SMTP, email addresses showed the peering. For example, my 'bang path' was ....!apple!ucsc!ucscb!kreme which meant "First, you have to get to Apple. From there, Apple will route the email to the University of California at Santa Cruz, which will send it to the machine named ucscb, which will route it to the user 'kreme'. Apple and UCSC were peers. Someone at, say, Dartmouth, would have to send an email to me with and address something like: athene!dartmouth!apple!ucsc!ucscb!kreme while someone at Harvard might have to do something like apollo!harvard!mit!ucb!apple!ucsc!ucscb!kreme So, not only did you need to know someone's address, but you had to manually specify the route. If one of the machines (or more) was connecting via UUCP, email could take days. Sometimes many days. Sometimes more days than putting a stamp on a letter and dropping it in a mailbox. -- Not that I condone fascism, or any -ism for that matter. -Ism's in my opinion are not good. A person should not believe in an -ism, he should believe in himself. I quote John Lennon, "I don't believe in The Beatles, I just believe in me." Good point there. After all, he was The Walrus. I could be The Walrus and I'd still have to bum rides off of people.
I'm trying to remember what one does in this situation. Don't you have to have a full routing table from each provider so your router can choose between them? That's quite a bit of memory - but then as I say it's been a few years so perhaps it's a lot cheaper to do that than it used to be.
Biassed which way? I never watched [1] commercial TV when I lived in the US. [1] OK so I'm lying, yes yes I watched Perry Mason reruns and also ST-NG. Big deal.
Hmmm. Definitely food for thought. I may look into it further, but I still would want to work out what I can offer funders that is more encouraging than the common "wait for months before you get anything useful".
Right; that makes sense to me. Software development is a different beast, though, especially when a company has a 1.x version already selling. It probably also doesn't help that I proposed an open software project to Kickstarter way back in 2010 when they were just beginning and they said it wasn't a fit. That soured my view, but maybe I need to reassess.
Towards the American political right (presidents Reagan, Bush, war- mongers-in-general, etc). Fox is owned by Rupert Murdoch. Billy Y..
Memory's become cheaper, but the number of prefixes has grown. Heh. Anyway, there's more than one way to do this - Sample Configuration for BGP with Two Different Service Providers (Multihoming) http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/ip/border-gateway-protocol-bgp/23675-27.html Billy Y..
In message <lkr0v8$khc$> Reagen would be lambasted at Fox for being a touchy-feely anti-business liberal. Remember, Reagan wanted millionaires to pay taxes.
