I am not familiar with VZ's FIOS network... however I suspect that if they are using a Redback at the Headend, it would allow you to have a 'bridge' network with secure arp settings. (it's a feature that we have seen on Redback's...) Allows you to have a 'flat network' for all your subs, and there is a mechanism built in to allow for assign static ip's and also not allowing for someone to 'fake' / 'steal' someone else assigned IP's. This is nice, because one can be very efficient in their use of IPv4 addresses.... This is why I had said earlier that some of these networks are built with infrastructure that is not designed / meant to run advance routing protocols for an End User customers... too much overhead in running bgp sessions to hand off a single IP or even a /29 ........ Faisal Imtiaz Snappy Internet& Telecom On 3/14/2012 9:13 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
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From: "Faisal Imtiaz"<faisal@snappydsl.net> Is that is needed, what is wrong with that ? Well, we just had FiOS Business 150/65 dropped this week, and my /27 isn't even a /27; we're sharing a /24 with, presumably, a bunch of other customers.
Not sure how BGP would handle that...
Cheers, -- jra