In message <5414.1257270127@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu w rites:
On Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:11:15 PST, Mike said:
Small-site multi-homing is one of the great inequities of the Internet and one that can, and should, be solved. I envision an Internet of the future where anyone with any mixture of any type of network connections can achieve, automatically, provider independence and inbound/outbound load sharing across disparate links.
400 million Joe Sixpacks and their counterparts around the globe, all wanting to run BGPto multihome the /29 in their basement.
Be careful what you ask for, you may get it.
With a protocol to distribute which prefixes (with weighting) are viable, a end node could just select a appropritate source address out of several provider assigned ones and use source address routing to find a appropropiate exit path which doesn't break BCP 38. This is as good as the NAT solutions for small-site multi-homing today. Mark -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: marka@isc.org