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Re: multi homing pressure

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Elmar K. Bins)
Wed Oct 19 13:56:31 2005

Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 19:56:06 +0200
From: "Elmar K. Bins" <elmi@4ever.de>
To: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <6.2.3.4.0.20051019122724.05cc1b60@64.7.153.2>
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mike@sentex.net (Mike Tancsa) wrote:

> >The customer wants redundancy.
> 
> The customer wants reliability

That's what you know and what I know. The customer has already jumped
one step ahead from "reliability" to "multiple providers", just like
he does with parcel services etc.

> There are better ways to do it as you describe below.

Yup, but the customer needs to be made aware of them.

Elmi.

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