[35591] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Broken Internet?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Francis)
Tue Mar 13 18:38:09 2001
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Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 13:45:44 -0800
To: Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>,
'Patrick Greenwell' <patrick@cybernothing.org>,
"Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>
From: Peter Francis <peter@softaware.com>
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>Any business needs:
>1. to be able to change upstream providers without having to renumber.
Why? Intelligent use of DNS and dhcp make renumbering only a minor inconvenience.
>2. to be able to change access providers without having to suffer
>multi-month down-times.
Mission/business critical services should be in a co-lo anyway and not off a DSL line.
>3. to be able to have its net-block(s) visible regardless of which ISPs they
>are currently using.
How do you propose doing this without growing the routing table 1-2 orders of magnitude?
>
>Currently the only ones that can do that are those that;
>1. Are large enough to justify a /20 (begging the question of how they got
>that large).
>2. Can afford their own datacenter.
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>It looks like our technical solutions are raising unreasonable barriers to
>entry for small businesses.
No. Co-lo your website and "intranet". Get two T1's that same provider via two different entry points/carriers to your office (if possible) and you should be about as rock solid you could expect for $2-3000/month or there abouts.
Peter
