On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 11:36:16AM +0200, Andre Oppermann wrote:
Nils Ketelsen wrote:
So, what we really want is PI addresses. And with the current pratices they just do not aggregate which also is a bad thing. This is why I think the geographical approach already mentioned on the list (one netblock per country, different sizes depending on population) currently is the approach which fits that need best, I believe.
How do you come to that conclusion? Every other PI space will be with another ISP. So even thought you might have everything close together on a "human logic" level there is no way to aggregate the prefixes together in the routing system. Unless of course you want to do it PTT style where one is the one who routes this block.
I think in most cases the "human logic level" also works for routing. So I guess many people will carry the complete routingtable for those countries they communicate a lot with (mostly this will be the own country and some nearby, but YMMV) and just have a few aggregates like "send all traffic to $farcountry1 to uplink A, send all for $farcountry2 via uplink B etc". Communication mostly happens in the same way "human logic" does, because in the end its humans initiating the communication. I think this could be a good compromise between every multihomed user has to be in every routing table and ongoing provider dependance. Nils -- Please let us know if your SunSolve visit saved you a call to Sun Support! Access Denied [komplette Auskunft zu einem Patch auf http://sunsolve.sun.com/]