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In-Reply-To: <20051007003239.GV1013@burnout.tpb.net> Cc: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net> From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net> Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 23:42:50 -0400 To: nanog@merit.edu Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu On Oct 6, 2005, at 8:32 PM, Niels Bakker wrote: > * deepak@ai.net (Deepak Jain) [Fri 07 Oct 2005, 02:29 CEST]: > >> I think Cogent's offer of providing free transit to all single >> homed Level3 customers is particularly clever and being >> underpublicized. I wouldn't be surprised if Cogent is in more >> buildings than Level3 with a high degree of overlap with the >> entire Level3 lit network. That could be a very nasty "competitor" >> to force into your customers awareness by your own action (or >> inaction) -- especially if your customer is single homed to you >> and realizes now that isn't enough of the "Internet" for them. > > I guess a significant part of the single-homed networks behind Level > (3) would be in PA space owned by them, and thus will find the > initial step towards multihoming very hard to take (renumbering > into PI or their own PA space). Renumber why? If they have a /24, all they need is an AS & a BGP capable router. If they don't have a /24 or larger, then they will either need to renumber, or NAT, or some other fun magic. But the upper bound on the difficult of such exercises is exactly equal to changing providers. -- TTFN, patrick
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