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.


If it is a outage and you are running BGP you will need to wait for your
router to converge. In worst case you will be dragged into the routing
problems. However, I agree with Randy that 90% of outages are due to
local-tail problems. 

I agree that two links to two operators are more reliable, but the real 
questions are if they are enough MORE reliable to justify the extra
routes, and if so how do we implement this? And this should be a general
solution all the way down to the residential users...

I am not conviced that having multiple upstreams for entrprises, SOHO,
residentials or even small ISPs are worth it.

- kurtis -