Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
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.
Hey there's always LISP, they even have code... http://www.ietf.org/dyn/wg/charter/lisp-charter.html The largest inequity of all is that cost delta to you when advertise one more prefix (minor) vs the collective cost to the whole internet of carrying it. The fact is that a combination of technical conventions, business considerations, and social pressures retard the growth in the routing table to a rate which while not all that desirable from some perspectives is manageable. It continues to be the case that the barrier to entry is relatively low as the existance proof of new entrants routinely shows. There is in fact nothing other than a little money, time, and a business need between you and multihoming. The fact that it may not be as cheap or convenient as some might like is not the product of discrimination...
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.