more specific routes in today reality

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
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