Hi, On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 11:17:25PM +0300, Vladimir A. Jakovenko wrote:
Some providers are multihomed but cannot cover the costs, even for a small lir. If you want to be multihomed, the costs for routers & co. are far higher than for being LIR. If you can't afford being LIR, be single-homed.
Are you sure? Old BGP-capable Cisco routers (like 25xx), especialy from eBay are very cheap.
"Multihoming" with something less than full tables won't really solve anything - as "multihoming without an AS number", it's some weird thing that has its place, but doesn't buy you much in the long run. (As for your example with the IX - this could be done without globally visible space just fine, it's not "multihoming") Gert Doering -- NetMaster -- SpaceNet AG Mail: netmaster@Space.Net Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 Tel : +49-89-32356-0 80807 Muenchen Fax : +49-89-32356-299