[85953] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: multi homing pressure
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Wed Oct 19 15:58:05 2005
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 12:56:32 -0700
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
To: Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org>,
"Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@mci.com>
Cc: Brandon Butterworth <brandon@rd.bbc.co.uk>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.4.63.0510191152550.2952@server.duh.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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> Well, not necessarily.
>
> Tier-2s should be given much more credit than they typically are in
> write-ups like this. When a customer is single homed to a tier-2 that has
> multiple tier-1 upstreams, and uses a delegated netblock from the tier-2's
> aggregations, that means one less ASN and one or more less routes in the
> global table.
>
> It's a Good Thing(tm).
>
Not for the single-homed customer when the Tier-2 service is interrupted.
Owen
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