The gist of the original question was in a multihomed environment. Which provider do I get my space from? Assuming the one I don't use address space from won't announce my routes, why bother? At 12:43 AM 6/5/97 -0400, Nathan Stratton wrote:

On Wed, 4 Jun 1997, Eric Germann wrote:

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Isn't the biggest problem with PI space having a big enough network so Sprint and everyone else doesn't filter you? Specifically a /19 or larger (~ 8000 addresses)? Can you justify to them 32 Class C's so you can be seen everywhere? I know of another startup provider who had this problem. Its a chicken and egg scenario. They needed to sell connectivity, but couldn't reach portions of the net, specifically Sprint. Kind of kills your marketing when you can't get to the entire 'Net. How do others deal with this scenario in a startup environment, or even an established environment where you can't justify 8000 addresses yet?

Renumber a lot. It is hard for the Internic to hand out /19 when most of the new providers will be out of business in 6 months. The only way to do it is to get space from your ISP and then renumber if you move. After you do that a few times if you do it will, you will be able to get a /19 and then /18 and so on.

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