[43271] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: sub-basement multihoming (Re: Verio Peering Question)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean M. Doran)
Wed Oct 3 10:46:50 2001
To: eddy+public+spam@noc.everquick.net, smd@clock.org
Cc: iljitsch@muada.com, nanog@merit.edu
Message-Id: <20011003144500.AD75BC7901@cesium.clock.org>
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 07:45:00 -0700 (PDT)
From: smd@clock.org (Sean M. Doran)
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
| The "BGP uninformed" ask, "Why can't traffic just choose one of
| two paths?
The "BGP informed" ask that too. However, they know the technology
isn't quite up to this worthy trick:
| magic behind the scenes ... "just works", and all traffic should
| be able to use all of their connections.
... except where that is not desired for policy reasons (e.g.,
don't use the volume-charged connection when the flat-rate
connection isn't full).
These are *hard problems*, unfortunately, and are still
in the land of blue-sky research.
Meanwhile, the problem is that the demand to do fancy routing
things outstrips the Internet's current collective ability
to supply it. As a result, we have to say "no" (or more $ than
you can afford) to alot of things that seem worthwhile. One of
those things is "low-value prefixes", independent of who announces
them to the world.
| I think that the demand is there -- current products just don't allow it.
That's the crux of the problem, independent of whose "fault" it
is that current products are not up to the task.
Sean.
