At 09:58 AM 4/5/96 -0600, you wrote:
We hear a lot about dual-homed ISPs and ISPs who want to change their upstream providers. It would be very interesting to have some quantitative information about the size of these classes.
(Or, are issues related to dual-homed ISPs and changes in upstream providers more theoretical than real?)
I have worked for 3 ISP's in the past several years. Of the three 2 peer at the MAE (actually the connection for one of them is still sitting in MaBell's in box). This is a prohibitively small sample to be useful though. At most the number of ISP's dualhoming must be <= the number of assigned ASN#'s. As for leaving their NSP, I am not sure that many are doing that. Its hard as hell to do without killling your customers. Justin Newton * You have to change just to stay Internet Architect * caught up. Erol's Internet Services *