more specific routes in today reality

> > assume that I
> > am cost concious resdient with a sattelite down-link (yupp, 
> > they exist),
> > and a DSL line and a Cable link. Should I not be allowed the same easy
> > choice of up-link as the corporate world? 
> > 
> > Let's then assume that I have my home on VoIP only so NAT is 
> > out. Do I get
> > my own AS-number and PA space then?
> > 
> 
> You are using three different IP addresses that are dynamically (OK. If you
> insist statically) assigned to three different links. But how can I reach
> your web server ?
> This is different from the corporate world to have the same IP coming in
> from different links.

If I only have three addresses I need some form of NAT on my home network,
and that will brak my services as well as block the Web-server, just as
point out. So I need a routable block.

> > > In this situation the most popular solution for local 
> > customer, who needs 
> > > reliable and cheap IP uplink and high speed access to 
> > regional Internet 
> > > resources, is to build two channels to local ISPs (not so 
> > reliable, but much
> > > more cheaper than even one external uplink) and to local IX. 
> 
> In this SOHO situation you don't need a seperate entry in the 
> global routing table. Also the point is two links (phone line won't
> die the same time as the satellite, will they ?)

No, but in order to use this Sat uplink  I need to have globally routable
address block. Which will pollut the routigtable. So in my extream
example, we would end up with a address block per SOHO user.

- kurtis -