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Re: A proposal for reducing routes due to multihoming
- From: coneill
- Date: Tue Oct 29 14:27:08 1996
On Tue, 29 Oct 1996, Wayne Bouchard wrote:
> > It's dead simple, really: Assign address blocks to pairs of providers.
> > Both providers announce those blocks all the time, and assign addresses
> > out of those blocks to customers who multihome between those two
> > providers.
>
> Subscriber A gets netblock from B who cooperates with C. Subscriber A
> hates C and goes with D. What now? D has to advertize the route and C
> has to stop. There goes the simplicity.
No. The block is not PI space. Subscriber A must renumber if he switches
to another provider. The block will still be advertised as the aggregate
w/o any holes.
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