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Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008
From: Daniel Roesen <dr () cluenet de>
Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2005 01:26:49 +0200
On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 12:52:35AM +0200, Andre Oppermann wrote:
Multihomed end sites usually get away with receiving only default route or some partial routes from their upstreams. So technically you can BGP multihome with Cisco 1600 or even smaller easily (dunno where BGP support is starting to become available).Technically yes, practically no. At least not for the purposes people normally want to multihome.
I cannot confirm this observation from my experience supporting a number of customers with their multihoming setups that I've either designed myself or supported as part of "managed internet access" solutions. I _did_ see several badly designed setups though that had full tables (and associated hardware overkill) but didn't need it. Consequence: wasted money, worse convergence times and routers falling over because of RAM depletion and fragmentation over time. Regards, Daniel -- CLUE-RIPE -- Jabber: dr () cluenet de -- dr@IRCnet -- PGP: 0xA85C8AA0
Current thread:
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008, (continued)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Andre Oppermann (Jul 07)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Alexei Roudnev (Jul 08)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Brad Knowles (Jul 08)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Alexei Roudnev (Jul 08)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Brad Knowles (Jul 08)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Matt Ghali (Jul 08)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Brad Knowles (Jul 08)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Andre Oppermann (Jul 08)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Daniel Roesen (Jul 08)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Andre Oppermann (Jul 08)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Daniel Roesen (Jul 08)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Joe Abley (Jul 08)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Daniel Roesen (Jul 09)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Brad Knowles (Jul 08)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Tony Li (Jul 08)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Brad Knowles (Jul 08)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Christopher L. Morrow (Jul 08)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Alexei Roudnev (Jul 09)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Randy Bush (Jul 09)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Valdis . Kletnieks (Jul 09)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Stephen J. Wilcox (Jul 09)