On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 10:19:28PM +0000, Paul Vixie scribed:
jared@puck.nether.net (Jared Mauch) writes:
it will be interesting to see if this has acutal impact on ASN allocation rates globally.
i don't think so. multihoming without bgp isn't as hard as qualifying for PI space. i think we'll finally see enterprise-sized multihoming NAT/proxy products.
If you can run Squid, you can multihome your web connections today. It's a little bit awkward to configure, but then again, so is Squid. People are welcome to poke at, fold, spindle, or mutilate: http://nms.lcs.mit.edu/ron/ronweb/#code (Part of my thesis work, Monet is a modification to Squid that causes it to try to open N TCP connections to a Web server that it wants to talk to. It uses the first SYN ACK to return, and closes the other connections to be a nice neighbor. It's shockingly effective at improving availability to Web sites that are themselves multihomed or otherwise good. Warning: Often still leads to annoyance if you find yourself able to browse the web but not do anything else. We do have a NAT version of this that works with arbitrary protocols. If people are interested, I'll try to convince my former student to dig up the code and make it a bit prettier.) -Dave