On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 09:04:57AM -0700, John Neiberger wrote: > For the past few years it has been fairly common for non-ISPs to > multihome to different providers for additional redundancy in case a > single provider has problems. I know this is frowned upon now, > especially since it helped increase the number of autonomous systems and > routing table prefixes beyond what was really necessary.
Who defines what is "really necessary"? What is your understanding of "really necessary" when it comes to the desire to be commercially and technically independent of your suppliers? It's this discussion again. Regards, Daniel
