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Re: sub-basement multihoming (Re: Verio Peering Question)
From: smd () clock org (Sean M. Doran)
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 07:45:00 -0700 (PDT)
| The "BGP uninformed" ask, "Why can't traffic just choose one of | two paths? The "BGP informed" ask that too. However, they know the technology isn't quite up to this worthy trick: | magic behind the scenes ... "just works", and all traffic should | be able to use all of their connections. ... except where that is not desired for policy reasons (e.g., don't use the volume-charged connection when the flat-rate connection isn't full). These are *hard problems*, unfortunately, and are still in the land of blue-sky research. Meanwhile, the problem is that the demand to do fancy routing things outstrips the Internet's current collective ability to supply it. As a result, we have to say "no" (or more $ than you can afford) to alot of things that seem worthwhile. One of those things is "low-value prefixes", independent of who announces them to the world. | I think that the demand is there -- current products just don't allow it. That's the crux of the problem, independent of whose "fault" it is that current products are not up to the task. Sean.
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- Re: sub-basement multihoming (Re: Verio Peering Question) Sean M. Doran (Oct 03)
- Re: sub-basement multihoming (Re: Verio Peering Question) E.B. Dreger (Oct 03)
- Re: sub-basement multihoming (Re: Verio Peering Question) Vadim Antonov (Oct 03)
- Re: sub-basement multihoming (Re: Verio Peering Question) Grant A. Kirkwood (Oct 03)
- Re: sub-basement multihoming (Re: Verio Peering Question) Valdis . Kletnieks (Oct 03)
- Re: sub-basement multihoming (Re: Verio Peering Question) Rafi Sadowsky (Oct 05)
- Re: sub-basement multihoming (Re: Verio Peering Question) Peter van Dijk (Oct 05)
- dns based loadbalancing/failover bert hubert (Oct 06)
- Re: dns based loadbalancing/failover E.B. Dreger (Oct 06)
- Re: dns based loadbalancing/failover Paul Vixie (Oct 06)
- Re: dns based loadbalancing/failover Mary Grace (Oct 06)
- Re: sub-basement multihoming (Re: Verio Peering Question) Vadim Antonov (Oct 03)
- Re: sub-basement multihoming (Re: Verio Peering Question) E.B. Dreger (Oct 03)