<quote> "Half of the companies that are multihomed should have gotten better service from their providers," says Patrik Faltstrom, a Cisco engineer and co-chair of the IETF's Applications Area. "ISPs haven't done a good enough job explaining to their customers that they don't need to multihome." </quote>

From what I just went through (DSLnetworks v Covad), this is straight bulldust. Had I been properly multi-homed, MHSC would NOT have been down for 5 weeks.

Good point, one of our customers multihomed to two different providers and had several instances where a BGP configuration change by one of their providers made their networks invisible to half of that provider's peers. These types of errors take quite a while to track down and are generally only found when the help desk gets calls that some people from around the world can't get to internal network resources (Looking glass sites are invaluable in these situations). Risk mitigation from these types of errors is easy justification for multi-homing. Irwin