On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 2:58 AM, Eliot Lear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To put it another way, > home and SMB networks really don't even have an option today to be > multihomed (at least not at the network layer),
Not correct. Anyone buying at least two T1s @ $600/mo or so each qualifies for a /24 for multihoming from one of the ISPs and an AS# from ARIN. Further, anyone with a legacy IP address block (pre-1997) is also able to announce a block, even with just one T1. Occasionally (though this is rare) folks with less than a T1 are also permitted by their ISPs to participate in BGP. I have a quote from a tunnel provider to do so for $300/mo, tunneling the resulting block to my two home broadband links. While most hobbyists aren't going to spend $1200/mo on Internet connectivity, that's well within the budget of most small offices. My point is: if we solve the problem for small offices without disrupting or removing BGP, we'll at least minimally have an intermediate solution where BGP growth can be constrained by moving the dividing line between what size network is large enough to announce into BGP and what has to use the new solution. IMO, such would be a more modest and attainable goal than trying to replace BGP outright. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William D. Herrin ................ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3005 Crane Dr. ...................... Web: <http://bill.herrin.us/> Falls Church, VA 22042-3004 _______________________________________________ rrg mailing list [email protected] https://www.irtf.org/mailman/listinfo/rrg
