Re: more specific routes in today reality
- Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 11:07:12 +0200 (MEST)
> > This however, does not mean though that multiple uplinks to more than one
> > provider gives you more security than mulitple uplinks to one.
>
> I completely disagree with you.
>
> Multiple links may have failure modes in addition to and identical to some
> of the failure modes of a single connection, but multiple links also removes
> a complete calls of failure modes associated with a single connection.
>
> This is a pretty fundemental tenet of communications systems in general as
> is not limited to IP.
Well, teoretically this is certanly true. However, looking at reality, I
don't think this is wort an extra entry in the global routing table, and
where do this stop? How about the SOHO user that I described? Why are not
they allowed broken up PA or PI space to be multihomed?
- kurtis -
