[68399] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Enterprise Multihoming
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel Roesen)
Thu Mar 11 11:13:46 2004
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 17:13:04 +0100
From: Daniel Roesen <dr@cluenet.de>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Mail-Followup-To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <s0502bd9.071@efirstbank.com>; from john.neiberger@efirstbank.com on Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 09:04:57AM -0700
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On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 09:04:57AM -0700, John Neiberger wrote:
> For the past few years it has been fairly common for non-ISPs to
> multihome to different providers for additional redundancy in case a
> single provider has problems. I know this is frowned upon now,
> especially since it helped increase the number of autonomous systems and
> routing table prefixes beyond what was really necessary.
Who defines what is "really necessary"? What is your understanding
of "really necessary" when it comes to the desire to be commercially
and technically independent of your suppliers?
It's this discussion again.
Regards,
Daniel
