redirecting overseas requests to local servers

[Barry Margolin]

In article <37D49EAF.A75E7F89 at cisco.com>,
Michael Voight  <mvoight at cisco.com> wrote:
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>Barry Margolin wrote:
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>> In article <37D4271D.97DF04F6 at cisco.com>,
>> Michael Voight  <mvoight at cisco.com> wrote:
>> >Yes.. But this means the clients need to be near a server running bgp
>> >that participates in the server's bgp.
>> 
>> The client's ISP should be running BGP.
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>Doesn't this match what I said?

No, I thought you said that the client site needs to run BGP.  In general,
BGP is only required at multi-homed sites.  For singly-homed sites (which
accounts for most organizations connected to the Internet), it's sufficient
to depend on the BGP that their ISP is already running.

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