Hi, On Mon, May 26, 2003 at 03:56:36PM +0100, Carlos Morgado wrote: [..]
The interesting problem is how to make end user (!) multihoming work without putting the burden on everybody *else*. I am NOT interested in seeing 20.000 small multihomed end customers in my routing tables, because in the end everything goes over one of two possible links anyway.
That's cause you only have 2 links. Some people have 20. With 3 diferent routing policies. And that's not even counting costumer links. Geting the Americas, Africa, Europe and Asia routes blows dead bears in that situation.
As I've already replied to Daniel Roesen: if you're big enough, you might need to carry even the far-distant more specifics. But then you need to buy "the big routers" anyway, just due to interface speed reasons. And again: not wanting to do something doesn't mean you have to take away the possibility to do so from everybody else, unless there is good technical reason against it. [..]
So go and get an allocation :-)
Aparently I'm not big enough. My costumers are though.
Have you sent in a formal request to the RIPE hostmasters?
I'm supposed to get a /48 from one my 5 or 6 upstream providers and then announce it to a number of IXs. It's got to be a brave new Internet when in the name of aggregation upstream providers can't get address space. (but that's another flamewar ;))
I'm not going to revive that discussion - this *is* why we're working on the policy (on the global-v6 list) and have the proposal to change the "200 customers" requirement. Right now we're talking about a specific proposal (RIPE-261) and should try to keep the discussion focused. Gert Doering -- NetMaster -- Total number of prefixes smaller than registry allocations: 54837 (54495) SpaceNet AG Mail: netmaster@Space.Net Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 Tel : +49-89-32356-0 80807 Muenchen Fax : +49-89-32356-299