[11301] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Non-ISP companies multi-homing?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (root@gannett.com)
Fri Jul 25 11:15:35 1997
From: root@gannett.com
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 10:59:22 -0400 (EDT)
To: Gordon Mercer <gmercer@dn.net>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199707242338.TAA03003@postal.dn.net>
On Thu, 24 Jul 1997, Gordon Mercer wrote:
> I think I see where the miscommunication lies. We were
> discussing ISP's running IBGP sessions with multi-homed
> customers. giving you the ability to announce routes to
> another provider tagged with my AS is what makes me
> nervous.
Ah, ok, that's the miscommunication.
>
> Are you announcing routes to BBN as AS 701? or to UUNet
> from AS 1?
Nah, they wouldn't let me, I'd have to fix UUNet's TCO, and the first thing
to go would be that damn ATM switch, *then* I'd have to fix BBN, and there
ain't that much time in the world.....
Paul
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