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Tier-2 reachability and multihoming
From: G Pavan Kumar <pavanji () cse iitb ac in>
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 09:45:05 +0530 (IST)
Hi there, I have been working on characterizing the internet hierarchy. I noticed that 27% of the total possible tier-2 provider node pairs are unreachable i.e., they dont have any tier-1 node connecting them nor a direct peering link between them. Multihoming can be used as a predominant reason for thereachability of tier-3 nodes which are customers of these nodes, but what about the reachability of tier-2 nodes themselves and its customers which cannot afford to multihoming? How does BGP solve this reachability problem when it gets a request to a prefix unreachable?
1 tier-1 / 2 4 tier-2 / \ / \ 5 6 7 8 tier-3 here, nodes 2 and 4 have no reachability, 1 / | 2 3 4 / \ \/ \ 5 6 7 8 now, node 7 is reachable from 2 and its lower level nodes, but what about node 4 and 8, and as a typical case, suppose nodes 4 and 8 have no multihoming whatsoever, what then? Regards, pavan
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- Re: Tier-2 reachability and multihoming, (continued)
- Re: Tier-2 reachability and multihoming bmanning (Mar 24)
- Re: Tier-2 reachability and multihoming G Pavan Kumar (Mar 24)
- Re: Tier-2 reachability and multihoming G Pavan Kumar (Mar 24)
- Re: Tier-2 reachability and multihoming Patrick W Gilmore (Mar 24)
- Re: Tier-2 reachability and multihoming G Pavan Kumar (Mar 24)
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- Re: Tier-2 reachability and multihoming Jay R. Ashworth (Mar 25)
- Re: Tier-2 reachability and multihoming Randy Bush (Mar 25)
- Re: Tier-2 reachability and multihoming bmanning (Mar 25)
- Re: Tier-2 reachability and multihoming Suresh Ramasubramanian (Mar 25)
- Re: Tier-2 reachability and multihoming Suresh Ramasubramanian (Mar 25)
- Re: Tier-2 reachability and multihoming Joe Abley (Mar 23)
- Re: Tier-2 reachability and multihoming Steve Gibbard (Mar 24)