L(3) / 4/8 / multihoming
I see in http://www.onesc.net/communities/as3356/ that L3 doesn't permit customers to multihome the 4/8 space that they inherited from BBN, via GTE, etc, ad nauseum... and I'm curious whether anyone knows why? It sounds like something there might be an interesting story in... Off-list is fine; I'll summarize if anyone else cares. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274 Those who cast the vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything. -- (Josef Stalin)
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 04:50:15PM -0400, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
I see in http://www.onesc.net/communities/as3356/ that L3 doesn't permit customers to multihome the 4/8 space that they inherited from BBN, via GTE, etc, ad nauseum...
and I'm curious whether anyone knows why? It sounds like something there might be an interesting story in...
Lots of other people are curious, but no one knows the answers. One correspondent noted that Cogent did this with 38/8 when they bought PSI, but he didn't really know why... Cheers, - jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274 Those who cast the vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything. -- (Josef Stalin)
Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 04:50:15PM -0400, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
I see in http://www.onesc.net/communities/as3356/ that L3 doesn't permit customers to multihome the 4/8 space that they inherited from BBN, via GTE, etc, ad nauseum...
and I'm curious whether anyone knows why? It sounds like something there might be an interesting story in...
Lots of other people are curious, but no one knows the answers. One correspondent noted that Cogent did this with 38/8 when they bought PSI, but he didn't really know why...
It's really hard to put the genie back in the bottle once you've let it out. considering the strategic significance of impending address exhaustion one imagines that they have their reasons.
Cheers, - jra
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 04:50:15PM -0400, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
I see in http://www.onesc.net/communities/as3356/ that L3 doesn't
-----Original Message----- From: Joel Jaeggli [mailto:joelja@bogus.com] Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 2:34 PM To: Jay R. Ashworth Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: L(3) / 4/8 / multihoming Jay R. Ashworth wrote: permit
customers to multihome the 4/8 space that they inherited from BBN, via GTE, etc, ad nauseum...
and I'm curious whether anyone knows why? It sounds like something
Or, they inherited the directive - keep 4/8 pristine, aggregated, and absolute (BBN land - customers, infra), from BBN, too !?! there
might be an interesting story in...
Besides the obvious; where their other upstream became transit for (a good portion of) 4/8, be it their or their other upstream's fault in screwing up the adverts!?! I imagine those numbered out of 4/8 that wished to multihome to another provider, requested IP renumbering from BBN from one of BBN's non-4/8 (promiscuous) blocks. But, I speculate. ~ Ajeet Bagga Sr. Network Engineer EMC
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