At 09:58 AM 4/5/96 -0600, you wrote:
We hear a lot about dual-homed ISPs and ISPs who want to change their upstream providers. It would be very interesting to have some quantitative information about the size of these classes.
(Or, are issues related to dual-homed ISPs and changes in upstream providers more theoretical than real?)
I have worked for 3 ISP's in the past several years. Of the three 2 peer at the MAE (actually the connection for one of them is still sitting in MaBell's in box). This is a prohibitively small sample to be useful though. At most the number of ISP's dualhoming must be <= the number of assigned ASN#'s. As for leaving their NSP, I am not sure that many are doing that. Its hard as hell to do without killling your customers. Justin Newton * You have to change just to stay Internet Architect * caught up. Erol's Internet Services *
On Fri, 5 Apr 1996, Justin W. Newton wrote:
I have worked for 3 ISP's in the past several years. Of the three 2 peer at the MAE (actually the connection for one of them is still sitting in MaBell's in box). This is a prohibitively small sample to be useful though. At most the number of ISP's dualhoming must be <= the number of assigned ASN#'s. As for leaving their NSP, I am not sure that many are doing that. Its hard as hell to do without killling your customers.
Well in the Seattle area there are at least 3 providers who have switched NSPs over the years. Of course, as far as I know, all of them had portable address space at the time. Christopher E Stefan http://www.ironhorse.com/~flatline System Administrator Home: (206) 706-0945 Ironhorse Software, Inc. Work: (206) 783-6636 flatline@ironhorse.com finger for PGP key
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