[olug] dynamic routing for small business

[Nick Walter]

A small business with only one link to the internet does not need to
muck around with dynamic routing.  This is a good thing, because dynamic
routing is arcane, requires spendy hardware, and is easy to screw up.

The only time a business needs to start worrying about dynamic routing
is when they have multiple links to the internet.  In that case, dynamic
routing becomes a necessity to have traffic re-routed around if one link
fails.  

Nick Walter

On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 11:33, Eric Penne wrote:
> I was curious about what dynamic routing was.  I did a little googling and
> found out what some of the acronyms I had seen in the past couple of years
> meant.
> 
> What I never did find is when is it useful.  I know it is useful for large
> companies with lots of sites and network connections and stuff but what
> about small single connection places?  Is it useful to build a router with
> dynamic routing if you just have a single t1?  Does dynamic routing help
> you and others to determine the best path for packets?  Will running a
> router with dynamic routing help anybody else if you don't actively
> participate?  These are quite being worded the way I want them to.
> 
> Ok here it goes again.  I assume to use dynamic routing effectively you
> have to collaborate with other routers to find the best path.  If I were
> to just set up a router on my t1 without actively collaborating with my
> isp or next step up the chain, would it help anything?
> 
> Eric
> 
> 
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