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Re: corporations using BGP for advertising prefixes in mid-1990s


From: Roy <r.engehausen () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 17:31:47 -0700

On 5/12/2011 4:03 PM, George Herbert wrote:
> ....
> Large end-user companies generally multihomed by that time, and you
> generally did that by BGP4 at the time (post-1994), and before that
> BGP3, and before that EGP, and before that... well, there was little
> "commercial ISPness" other than NSFNet connectivity and the regional
> networks back then so multihoming was somewhat of a moot point.
>
> Thank you again, UUNet/Alternet and PSI!
>

The management of the large end-user company I worked for could barely spell Internet at the beginning of 1995. A few connections to the Internet existed and the lab where I worked was experimenting with a socks-server. There was a large intranet allocated from the company's class A space.



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