[118970] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: small site multi-homing (related to: Small guys with BGP issues)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Andrews)
Tue Nov 3 19:03:33 2009
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
From: Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:42:07 CDT."
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Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:02:33 +1100
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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In message <5414.1257270127@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu w
rites:
> On Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:11:15 PST, Mike said:
> >
> > Small-site multi-homing is one of the great inequities of the
> > Internet and one that can, and should, be solved. I envision an Internet
> > of the future where anyone with any mixture of any type of network
> > connections can achieve, automatically, provider independence and
> > inbound/outbound load sharing across disparate links.
>
> 400 million Joe Sixpacks and their counterparts around the globe, all wanting
> to run BGPto multihome the /29 in their basement.
>
> Be careful what you ask for, you may get it.
With a protocol to distribute which prefixes (with weighting) are
viable, a end node could just select a appropritate source address
out of several provider assigned ones and use source address routing
to find a appropropiate exit path which doesn't break BCP 38. This
is as good as the NAT solutions for small-site multi-homing today.
Mark
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