I have immersed myself today in docs about BGP, which is what we need to implement multihoming on our network.
A few notes:
- We need an AS number. We’ll probably have to get this from Preginet.
- We need a routable IP address block, or two same-sized address block from AFRDIS and Preginet.
- I need a router simulator to test my network design, and not frag things up.
- I need a book on BGP. The docs available on the net are just too overwhelming, and I wouldn’t know where to start.
- I’d probably have to consult with Preginet, and beyond that, with PLDT Datanet people.
Took us the whole day figuring how to setup the dial-in lines using TACACS+ and AAA on a Cisco 2500 series router and Maui.
It was doubly hard because although there was an existing config on the router, I only had very basic IOS knowledge. Thank goodness for Google, but even then I had to RTFM every once in a while to check up on what we’re doing.
Setting up Maui for TACACS+ was a breeze, though, since there was an existing
tacacs database in MySQL. It was only a matter of building version 9, and tweaking the settings to match that of the AAA router.
Actually connecting through the dial-up modem was another matter altogether, though. We still can’t figure out why it would connect one moment, not connect at all the next, and when it does connect, it’s extremely slllooooowwww (around 9 - 11 kbps).
Probably a noisy line? Or a misconfig on the router? Perhaps. We’ll see.
