On Sat, 14 Sep 1996 11:11:54 -0700 "Brett D. Watson" <bwatson@genuity.net> alleged:
this is what i was getting at in my note a week ago or so. it appears that many more networks are being announced by 2+ as's. so i'm assuming we're sort of doomed to poor aggregation as more and more people dual-home to providers.
Then one must ask, why are so many people finding it necessary to become multi-homed? A lot of it is kind of a vicious wheel. Because "NSP A" had routeing problems "customer X" had to backup their link to "NSP B". I personally think most of its down to a lack of education to the customers. If more people in the world actually could see the scale of this problem they'd probably do as much as they could to help. But, then again, we all want to make money don't we? Sales and Marketing don't you just love it!?! Regards, Neil. -- Neil J. McRae. Alive and Kicking. Easynet Group PLC neil@EASYNET.NET NetBSD/sparc: 100% SpF (Solaris protection Factor) Free the daemon in your <A HREF="http://www.NetBSD.ORG/">computer!</A>