[40953] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: multi-homing fixes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roeland Meyer)
Mon Aug 27 22:04:30 2001
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From: Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
To: 'Randy Bush' <randy@psg.com>, Dmitri Krioukov <dima@krioukov.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu, Steve Noble <snoble@sonn.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 19:06:23 -0700
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|> From: Randy Bush [mailto:randy@psg.com]
|> Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 4:58 PM
|>
|> >>> The whole problem seems to me to be a lack of a
|> micro-allocation policy,
|> >>> and an agreement from providers that they will not
|> filter that space.
|> >> judicious use of this might be helpful. the problem is
|> the 'judge' in
|> >> judicious.
|> > indeed. but it would still disassociate the space conservation and
|> > table growth problems to some extent; the "judge" being the same
|> > as today.
|>
|> ahhh, somebody understood the comment.
|>
|> the problem is that there is no obvious detent on the knob.
|> to start the
|> usual posturing and flamage, i propose min 2xDS3 multihomed.
I would sincerely like to know why not 2xDS1 multi-homed.
Most businesses can't cost-justify dual DS3's and many (UNited Airlines)
gate their entire company through a T1 (not counting the ecommerce stuff,
which is colo'd as it should be).
