True I hadn't considered setting your aim at customers who need a t1 or less and a /27, guess gaining experience in Ca. has its effects. Brian On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Shawn McMahon wrote:
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 08:59:11AM -0800, Brian W. wrote:
Now here is the question. What choices does the regional ISP have when implementing routing and IP addressing? I assume the regional ISP will not implement BGP, since there will only be one maybe two upstream connections to a single NSP - initially. You will have a marketing problem with this. Customers would like to see you connected to more than 1 nsp. Also, you sooner or later will get a customer that wants to multihome to you and another company. So, you'll really need to think about getting an as and running bgp I believe.
You're assuming a lot about his region.
Plug any rural Oklahoma county in there, and his model is what's done.