On Oct 6, 2005, at 8:32 PM, Niels Bakker wrote:
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Deepak Jain) [Fri 07 Oct 2005, 02:29 CEST]:
I think Cogent's offer of providing free transit to all single
homed Level3 customers is particularly clever and being
underpublicized. I wouldn't be surprised if Cogent is in more
buildings than Level3 with a high degree of overlap with the
entire Level3 lit network. That could be a very nasty "competitor"
to force into your customers awareness by your own action (or
inaction) -- especially if your customer is single homed to you
and realizes now that isn't enough of the "Internet" for them.
I guess a significant part of the single-homed networks behind Level
(3) would be in PA space owned by them, and thus will find the
initial step towards multihoming very hard to take (renumbering
into PI or their own PA space).
Renumber why?
If they have a /24, all they need is an AS & a BGP capable router.
If they don't have a /24 or larger, then they will either need to
renumber, or NAT, or some other fun magic. But the upper bound on
the difficult of such exercises is exactly equal to changing providers.
--
TTFN,
patrick
