Re: initial issues

[Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino <itojun@iijlab.net>]

>> goals of multihoming
>> - cope with L2 failures
>> - cope with upstream ISP failures
>> - load balancing, try to fill up two pipes we have toward upstream
>>       this needs more routing tricks.
>> - whatever you name it (but shouldn't dream too much, we need a workable
>>   operational solution not a 20-year-to-deploy new protocol)
>What about QoS balancing?
>Consider a site with one cheap but narrow bandwidth upstream and a second
>expensive but wide bandwidth upstream. To save money such a site would want
>to use the wide one only if needed, e.g. videoconferencing and such, and the
>cheaper one for everything else. I'm not sure if this is covered by 'load
>balancing'.

	Do you mean looking up routing table based on TOS/traffic class field?  
	I guess that was, in my mind, part of "more routing tricks" when I
	wrote the above text:-)

itojun