[5884] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: A proposal for reducing routes due to multihoming
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (coneill@oneill.net)
Tue Oct 29 14:35:35 1996
From: coneill@oneill.net
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 14:23:54 -0500 (EST)
To: Wayne Bouchard <web@typo.org>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199610291855.LAA23505@typo.org>
On Tue, 29 Oct 1996, Wayne Bouchard wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Subscriber A gets netblock from B who cooperates with C. Subscriber A
> hates C and goes with D. What now? D has to advertize the route and C
> has to stop. There goes the simplicity.
No. The block is not PI space. Subscriber A must renumber if he switches
to another provider. The block will still be advertised as the aggregate
w/o any holes.
