On Sat, Apr 08, 2000 at 11:46:40PM +0100, Brian Candler wrote:
On Fri, Apr 07, 2000 at 10:18:22PM -0400, Brian Wallingford wrote:
This was a relatively attractive option several years ago, when bgp-capable routers were expensive enough to limit their practical availability to large-ish companies.
Considering the current pricing on proven BGP-capable routers (i.e., with careful prefix filtering, even a 26xx can take full routes from a few peers/upstreams), what's the point of this method now?
Conservation of AS numbers. However, looking at the CIDR report, there seem to be plenty of those left for now. IP addresses don't seem to be a problem for now either.
But how does this apply if 20% of all (large or medium sized) companies start to multihome, which is what we see here ... /Jesper -- Jesper Skriver, jesper(at)skriver(dot)dk - CCIE #5456 Work: Network manager @ AS3292 (Tele Danmark DataNetworks) Private: Geek @ AS2109 (A much smaller network ;-) One Unix to rule them all, One Resolver to find them, One IP to bring them all and in the zone to bind them.