[41051] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: multi-homing fixed -- not!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roeland Meyer)
Tue Aug 28 22:08:19 2001
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From: Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
To: 'Randy Bush' <randy@psg.com>, Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 19:09:11 -0700
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A business, using between /24 and /19 (exposure of /20's is uncertain.
sometimes ... sometimes not), still can't multi-home. Therfore, not fixed.
|> From: Randy Bush [mailto:randy@psg.com]
|> Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 6:34 PM
|>
|> > how many providers have multiple POP's in a city that are
|> _completely
|> > redundant_? That is, they can operate _fully_ with one POP out of
|> > service?
|>
|> none can operate *fully*, as a customer access line pretty
|> much has to
|> terminate in a single router which can, and eventually will, fail.
|>
|> but, most large providers have more than one pop in the
|> largest cities,
|> bay area, nyc, dee cee, etc. and those pops are redundantly
|> and diversely
|> wired. if not, don't buy from them. life can be simple.
|>
|> of course, in toledo, you're probably sol.
Even big guys, in certain areas, are sol. thx for the proof.
