Multihoming - Resilience or Independence

Hi,

On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 12:52:37PM +0200, Nipper, Arnold wrote:
> > You're taking the very easy way "stop complaining, it's all your own
> fault".
> 
> Maybe it's easy, but I must say I've seen megatons of complaints, rants, ...
> but not yet a kilo of an idea how to solve the problem.

I have provided a number of suggestions.  Multiple times.

The basic issue is that multihoming is not *the* answer.  It's *one*, and
it has to be evaluated whether it's the right one for any specific customer.

Besides things caused by multihoming, there are many other prefixes that 
are announced but could be avoided by better aggregation or renumbering.

> I still can't see why the idea of having own netblocks and AS for
> multi-homing customers breaks if one ISP is going south. But of course there
> are other and more financial drawbacks with this approach.

Not "going south".  But "leaving the confederation due to unsolvable 
political problems".  See what happened with Contrib.NET when they broke
into GTN and TCP/IP (to repeat myself).

Gert Doering
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