[36338] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE[2]: Faster 'Net growth rate raises fears about routers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dee McKinney)
Tue Apr 3 11:43:31 2001
From: Dee McKinney <deem@wdm.com>
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Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 07:38:49 -0800 (AKDT)
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Irwin Lazar <ILazar@tbg.com> wrote:
>
>
> Good point, one of our customers multihomed to two different providers and
> had several instances where a BGP configuration change by one of their
> providers made their networks invisible to half of that provider's peers.
> These types of errors take quite a while to track down and are generally
> only found when the help desk gets calls that some people from around the
> world can't get to internal network resources (Looking glass sites are
> invaluable in these situations). Risk mitigation from these types of errors
> is easy justification for multi-homing.
>
> Irwin
Yes, and IF you live somewhere with limited physical capacity,
multi-homing takes on a much different value. I buy lots of RAM
and deal with it to insure what is most important.
Only the experienced walk with a limp.
/Dee
