[75735] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: large multi-site enterprises and PI prefix [Re: who gets a /32
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pekka Savola)
Mon Nov 22 13:25:47 2004
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 20:24:15 +0200 (EET)
From: Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi>
To: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
Cc: North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20041121234738.GA23071@vacation.karoshi.com.>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com wrote:
>> This seems to imply several things:
>> - when having lots of sites, you typically want to obtain local
>> Internet connectivity, because transporting all the traffic over
>> links or VPNs is a pretty heavy business
>
> this is an assertion which many have claimed is false.
> based on empericial evidence.
>
>> - you don't want to backhaul all the traffic in the internal network
>> / VPNs, so you'll either need to announce a lot of more specifics
>> or use IP addresses from local internet providers
>
> this is also an assertion based on false premise.
Care to offer a couple of examples of this empirical evidence ?
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