[5880] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: A proposal for reducing routes due to multihoming
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alexandre Leib Grojsgold)
Tue Oct 29 13:14:42 1996
From: algold@lambda.lncc.br (Alexandre Leib Grojsgold)
To: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 15:52:31 -0200 (GRNLNDDT)
In-Reply-To: <199610291627.LAA20113@panix.com> from "Alexis Rosen" at Oct 29, 96 11:27:35 am
>
> Bill Simpson claims that this idea is ~10 years old, but if so perhaps
> it's time to air it again. I thought of this during the route flap BOF at
> NANOG, mentioned it, and nobody came up with any immediate reasons why
> it wouldn't work, so I'm sending it to the list for further consideration.
>
> It's dead simple, really: Assign address blocks to pairs of providers.
> Both providers announce those blocks all the time, and assign addresses
> out of those blocks to customers who multihome between those two
> providers.
What if the customer ceases to be multihomed? Reassign it to another block?
On the other hand, if a client starts operating as single homed, it will
have to change Ip addresses when getting multihomed.
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