Re: What is multihoming was (design of a real routing v. endpoint id seperation)

[Jeroen Massar <jeroen () unfix org>]

On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 02:24 -0700, Owen DeLong wrote:
<SNIP>
> 3.    Most multihoming today is done using BGP, but, many other
>       solutions exist with various tradeoffs.  In V6, there is
>       currently only one known (BGP) and one proposed, but,
>       unimplemented (Shim6) solution under active consideration
>       by IETF. (this may be untrue, but, it seems to be the
>       common perception even if not reality).

As for "multihoming" in the sense that one wants redundancy, getting two
uplinks to the same ISP, or what I have done a couple of times already,
multiple tunnels between 2 sites (eg 2 local + 2 remote) and running
BGP/OSPF/RIP/VRRP/whatever using (private) ASN's and just providing a
default to the upstream network and them announcing their /48 works
perfectly fine.

The multihoming that people here seem to want though is the Provider
Independent one, and that sort of automatically implies some routing
method: read BGP.

Greets,
 Jeroen

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