[RndTbl] Multihoming

[John Lange]

Fair enough. I'll accept that.

If you have a look here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multihomed

it does allow that there are several things loosely considered to be
multi-homed.

However, in the 3rd definition "Multiple Links, Single IP address
(Space)", it says "This is what in general is meant with Multihoming"
and that is the definition I have always gone by.

In short, if you aren't doing BGP, you aren't multi-homed, but as with
most things that people don't understand well the term has been diluted.

Just like calling a home Linksys firewall a "router", even though it
doesn't route anything.

John

On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 18:25 -0500, Trevor Cordes wrote: 
> On  5 Jun, John Lange wrote:
> > 
> > I'm in a nit-picky mood so I'll just point out that plugging 2
> > connections into a firewall that supports dual wan is not multi-homing.
> 
> http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid7_gci212611,00.html
> 
> Sounds like the setup to me.  We have a firewall/router (linux) that has
> 2 DSL links (2 separate modems on 2 separate lines) to the internet (2
> separate real-world IP addresses).  Some traffic (port-based) goes out
> #1, some goes out #2.
> 
> Sorry if I got the terms wrong, but that always meant "multihoming" to
> me.  I could very well be wrong.
> 
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