more specific routes in today reality

> 
> > This however, does not mean though that multiple uplinks to 
> more than one
> > provider gives you more security than mulitple uplinks to one.
> 
> I completely disagree with you.
> 

So do I (at least in this little part of the thread, which I haven't
had the opportunity to follow at all length). For example, a provider-wide
routing (or performance, or whatever) problem would be your problem if
homed only to that one provider.


> Multiple links may have failure modes in addition to and 
> identical to some
> of the failure modes of a single connection, but multiple 
> links also removes
> a complete calls of failure modes associated with a single connection.
> 
> This is a pretty fundemental tenet of communications systems 
> in general as
> is not limited to IP.
> 


mh


> Peter
> 
>