Multihoming - Resilience or Independence

On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, Randy Bush wrote:

> > the basic issue is that multi-homing is *the demand*. And it's not the ISP
> > who has to evaluate whether it's the right one but the *customer*. We live
> > in a customer - driven world. Money makes the world go round, not techies.
>
> not a problem.  they can demand all they want.  but i will listen to their
> flakey routes when they *pay* me to do so.

No flame intended here, but aren't your customers already paying you to
get the best connectivity to remote sites? If a more specific route is
shorter or has more bandwith available shouldn't you route the traffic
that way in the interest of your customers? Of course I see the point in
filling up 128megs of ram with routing tables but I ask myself what costs
more; 128megs of extra ram or customers running off to another ISP because
that has better connectivity to their favorite site?

-- 
Sabri Berisha

~~ my own opinions etc ~