Bill:
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.
They're going from $25 - $90 or so single homed (what most pay) to $1200
multihomed plus a BGP capable router plus the cost of the ASN, and
that's only for failover. If you want to actually make use of optimal
routing, how much will that router cost? But all of that is NOTHING in
comparison to the costs of the expertise needed to manage such a service.
All of this having been said:
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.
Who said anything about removing BGP? Certainly not me. Not sure what
you mean by "disrupting."
Eliot
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