[108994] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: routing around Sprint's depeering damage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Justin M. Streiner)
Mon Nov 3 09:17:14 2008
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 09:17:03 -0500 (EST)
From: "Justin M. Streiner" <streiner@cluebyfour.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <490DC3C6.7090402@eeph.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Sun, 2 Nov 2008, Matthew Kaufman wrote:
> Ah yes, I suspect we can get all the network operators here to agree that any
> customer of another ISP should buy a second connection "just in case". Maybe
> this breakage will turn out to be the best way for everyone to double their
> customer base overnight.
>
> But seriously, it shouldn't be necessary to have two connections at work, two
> connections at home, two connections for each mobile device, just to ensure
> that when large providers stop working together you can still reach what you
> need to reach.
No, but the providers who provide those connections should be multihomed.
If they're not, I'd consider switching providers. Simple as that.
jms
