The global visibility point you address isn't that hard to solve. Most service providers you buy service from, if you tell em you're going to multihome to multiple providers, well they all know that a mask longer than /24 id to be filtered for sure and will allocate a /24 just based on multihoming, even if a smaller portion of the ips is all that is needed. Problems occur when you try to announce the /24 out of classful A or B space. Brian "Sonic" Whalen Success = Preparation + Opportunity On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Steve Noble wrote:
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 04:51:15PM -0700, Randy Bush wrote:
Now on the other hand by saying "and if it's smaller then a /20 you will be filtered" you cause undue pressure on people to "spin" their designs in ways to show that they can use a /20 and get the allocation from ARIN directly.
you mean not use nat? should i be broken-hearted?
NAT?!? You are obviously not understanding the point I was attempting to make.
The point was that companies may not need more then a /24 to put their entire site on, yet may be pushed to say they have more in order to acquire a /20 from ARIN, just to be globally visable.
If you were in a position where you did NOT have your own previously allocated swamp/b/a space, you wanted to multihome to a few different providers in such a way that you were globally reachable no matter who went offline and you only needed a /24 or less, what would you do?
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