On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 19:37 +0000, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > I'm not sure there are any sane solutions to routing in that > world.
Indeed. > Get a better ISP? The problem is not a bad singular ISP. It's combining more than one ISP that starts to make the problem. And the bottom line is that for most of the world, ISP shopping is not like going to the supermarket and having forty-eleven brands to choose from. I'm lucky I have a few choices, but there are people in rural parts that have 1 choice (but they don't apply here) or perhaps two choices and if they want multiple links, that means no choice. Sure, in an ideal world, ISPs would operate sanely. We are far from that and must deal in any case. > Hmm. I remember thinking about this a couple of years ago and seeing a > solution, but it does not immediately come to mind now. I must > cogitate further... Part of the problem is the inflexibility of various players. Everything that deals with routing assumes a single "main" routing table when in a more complex world that's not the case and there is no ability to step in and change that. That's why shorewall's "hack"s to deal with it is used by the people who use it. b.
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