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Re: IPv6 Routing table will be bloated?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Boyd)
Tue Oct 26 16:08:26 2010

From: Chris Boyd <cboyd@gizmopartners.com>
In-Reply-To: <5A6D953473350C4B9995546AFE9939EE0B14C504@RWC-EX1.corp.seven.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 15:08:07 -0500
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Oct 26, 2010, at 2:45 PM, George Bonser wrote:

> But how do they multihome without an ASN?
> If they have an ASN, how did they get it without going to an RIR and
> paying a fee?

I beleive Jack said that they have redundant connections to his network. =
 I took that to mean that they did not multihome to different AS.

Such arrangements are not uncommon.  Sprint seems to have done very well =
selling this sort of near-turnkey service to rural DSL carriers, tiny =
single town MSOs and the like.

--Chris



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