[36090] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: dsl providers that will route /24
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Schwartz)
Mon Mar 26 03:46:06 2001
From: "David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com>
To: "Bill Woodcock" <woody@zocalo.net>
Cc: "Steve Sobol" <sjsobol@NorthShoreTechnologies.net>,
<nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 00:43:16 -0800
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>> Why not just find someone else willing to advertise
>> your /24 and tunnel
>> your packets to you?
> Because he'd be using three times as much bandwidth, perhaps?
> -Bill
Three times as much is absolute worst case. In reality, it's more like
twice as much for just his incoming traffic. In any event, an entry in the
global routing table for a DSL line is not exactly polite networking anyway,
so what's a bit more excess?
DS
