On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 04:50:15PM -0400, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
I see in http://www.onesc.net/communities/as3356/ that L3 doesn't
-----Original Message----- From: Joel Jaeggli [mailto:joelja@bogus.com] Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 2:34 PM To: Jay R. Ashworth Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: L(3) / 4/8 / multihoming Jay R. Ashworth wrote: permit
customers to multihome the 4/8 space that they inherited from BBN, via GTE, etc, ad nauseum...
and I'm curious whether anyone knows why? It sounds like something
Or, they inherited the directive - keep 4/8 pristine, aggregated, and absolute (BBN land - customers, infra), from BBN, too !?! there
might be an interesting story in...
Besides the obvious; where their other upstream became transit for (a good portion of) 4/8, be it their or their other upstream's fault in screwing up the adverts!?! I imagine those numbered out of 4/8 that wished to multihome to another provider, requested IP renumbering from BBN from one of BBN's non-4/8 (promiscuous) blocks. But, I speculate. ~ Ajeet Bagga Sr. Network Engineer EMC