[107750] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: L(3) / 4/8 / multihoming
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Fri Sep 12 14:25:05 2008
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 14:24:50 -0400
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20080910205015.GL10282@cgi.jachomes.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 04:50:15PM -0400, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> I see in http://www.onesc.net/communities/as3356/ that L3 doesn't permit
> customers to multihome the 4/8 space that they inherited from BBN, via
> GTE, etc, ad nauseum...
>
> and I'm curious whether anyone knows why? It sounds like something there
> might be an interesting story in...
Lots of other people are curious, but no one knows the answers. One
correspondent noted that Cogent did this with 38/8 when they bought PSI,
but he didn't really know why...
Cheers,
- jra
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