Multihoming - Resilience or Independence

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nipper, Arnold" <arnold at nipper.de>
To: "Gert Doering" <gert at space.net>
Cc: "Dave Pratt" <djp-ripe-lists at djp.net>; <lir-wg at ripe.net>;
<routing-wg at ripe.net>
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 11:52 AM
Subject: Re: Multihoming - Resilience or Independence


> Hoi Gert,
>
> > 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 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.

One major problem is not being able to offer an SLA on the routing of the
address space, apart from the fact it is yet another route in the global
routing tables.

>
>
> The new mantra is: go home and do your homework

The new mantra is: We have done our homework now you do yours ;)


>
>
> -- Arnold
>