Multihoming - Resilience or Independence

At 01:14 PM 10/10/2001 +0200, you wrote:
>Gert,
>
> > The basic issue is that multihoming is not *the* answer.  It's *one*, and
> > it has to be evaluated whether it's the right one for any specific
>customer.
> >
>
>the basic issue is that multi-homing is *the demand*. And it's not the ISP
>who has to evaluate whether it's the right one but the *customer*. We live
>in a customer - driven world. Money makes the world go round, not techies.

  - "I would like a car made out of wood."
  - "I don't think that that is a good..."
  - "Stop being a techie, give me a car made out of wood."

>Go home and make your homework.

  ...and you could hear the customers router-"guru" on the verge of
   crying because he has *no* idea how to get out of this mess he's
   in from flapping his bgp-session ("umm a couple of times, no idea
   how many"), and where ever did his routers config go ("It was right
   here, honest")?

>-- Arnold

-- carl