Re: more specific routes in today reality
- Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 10:58:55 +0200 (MEST)
> > 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.
>
> Sure ? Small providers tend to use open source software (like zebra)
> and have 2 x 10 or 2 x 100 Mbit/s to different providers, so your
> argument is not really true. But i understand your intentions, seen from
> provider perspective are right.
I think there are customers who have the need for redundancy but, not the
need for a LIR. Actually a LIR is only needed if you have large amounts of
address space to manage. That is at least always the way I have looked at
LIRs. They have nothing to do with the routing policy. Now, you can have a
small amount of address space, but sill have the need for
resilience/redundancy/multiple uplinks.
- kurtis -
