[32775] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ISP operational question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian W.)
Tue Dec 12 18:19:10 2000
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 15:14:51 -0800 (PST)
From: "Brian W." <bri@sonicboom.org>
To: Shawn McMahon <smcmahon@eiv.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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True I hadn't considered setting your aim at customers who need a t1 or
less and a /27, guess gaining experience in Ca. has its effects.
Brian
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Shawn McMahon wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 08:59:11AM -0800, Brian W. wrote:
> >
> > > Now here is the question. What choices does the regional ISP have when
> > > implementing routing and IP addressing? I assume the regional ISP will not
> > > implement BGP, since there will only be one maybe two upstream connections
> > > to a single NSP - initially.
> > You will have a marketing problem with this. Customers would like to see
> > you connected to more than 1 nsp. Also, you sooner or later will get a
> > customer that wants to multihome to you and another company. So, you'll
> > really need to think about getting an as and running bgp I believe.
>
> You're assuming a lot about his region.
>
> Plug any rural Oklahoma county in there, and his model is what's done.
>
>
