[AusNOG] Attempting to understand DC internet connectivity

[Mark Newton]

On Apr 14, 2015, at 10:57 AM, Richard Thornton <richie.thornton at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Harry, so would you do something like 20mbit with Vocus and 1mbit with Telstra on a high speed port burstable to 20mbit and basically set the local preference and AS prepends to always use Vocus when it is up?

No, Telstra will localpref any prefixes you send them, so the Telstra link will carry all the traffic to you from AS1221 and AS4637 even when the Vocus link is up.

So you’ll likely need more than 1 Mbps commit to Telstra if you have any capacity to them at all.

What are you actually trying to achieve, in business terms? Cost reduction? Resiliency? Something else?

   - mark