[119246] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Failover how much complexity will it add?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Tue Nov 10 19:30:39 2009
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:29:51 +0900
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
In-Reply-To: <4AF9F3B3.3030200@bogus.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org, stef@memberwebs.com
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> It has been routinely observed in nanog presentations that settlement
> free providers by their nature miss a few prefixes that well connected
> transit purchasing ISPs carry.
just trying to understand what you mean,
o no transit-free provider actually has all (covering) prefixes needed
to cover the active space, but
o one or more reasonably small subsets of the set of transit-free
providers do cover the whole active space.
randy
