On 1999-12-06T11:06:42, Berislav Todorovic <beri@EU.net> said:
The best approach for small BGP customers is to use NAT. See the slides on that at http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/98dec/slides/nat-multihome-98dec/.
Which is a (serious?) waste of address space, since it requires at least two times the same assignment. On the other hand, it saves one ASN and one potential new buggy AS is kept away from the BGP4, so it probably evens out. On the other hand, NAT _is_ a _kludge_ for multihoming. But the ISP who really thinks his customer needs his own AS and is capable of setting it up (or having it setup for them) is probably also able to convince RIPE NCC they need PI... Sincerely, Lars Marowsky-Brie -- Lars Marowsky-Brie Network Management teuto.net Netzdienste GmbH