Re: /24 multihoming issue

2005-10-19 Thread Kyaw Khine
I got an answer for my question. 7018/ATT does ACCEPT /24 routes from 701/mci. e.g 24.143.13.0/24 on route-server.ip.att.net has AS-PATH (7018 701 13368). Is 7018 preferring 19094 over 701 regardless of AS-PATH length? Or, 7018 will not take prefixes from other peers if a particular prefix is co

Re: /24 multihoming issue

2005-10-19 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Kyaw Khine wrote: > I opened ticket with both 701 and 19094 when we did > failover 2 weeks ago. Both 701 and 19094 insist that > they just take the route and send it out to the rest > of the world. And at that time, I thought it was RADB yup, we're just passing it along as

Re: /24 multihoming issue

2005-10-19 Thread Kyaw Khine
I opened ticket with both 701 and 19094 when we did failover 2 weeks ago. Both 701 and 19094 insist that they just take the route and send it out to the rest of the world. And at that time, I thought it was RADB problem and agreed to close the tix. Now that RADB is fixed, I'm back at square one wi

Re: /24 multihoming issue

2005-10-19 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Kyaw Khine wrote: > > Says .. I pick 7018/AT&T. > 7018 is accepting 701/mci customer routes. But is 7018 > accepting 701/mci customer /24 routes ??? > > 7018 is definitely accepting 19094/telcove /24 routes > because I see 64.9.17.0/24 on ATT route-server > (route-server.ip.

Re: /24 multihoming issue

2005-10-19 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Kyaw Khine wrote: > Hmmm.. > When /24 gets to those ISP (direct connected to > 19094/telcove), shouldn't they prefer 701/mci path? depends on their relationship with 701 probably, and their internal decision criteria... they might filter or pref or... who knows :( > AS-PAT

Re: /24 multihoming issue

2005-10-19 Thread Kyaw Khine
Says .. I pick 7018/AT&T. 7018 is accepting 701/mci customer routes. But is 7018 accepting 701/mci customer /24 routes ??? 7018 is definitely accepting 19094/telcove /24 routes because I see 64.9.17.0/24 on ATT route-server (route-server.ip.att.net) So, why is 7018 receiving/accepting /24 from so

Re: /24 multihoming issue

2005-10-19 Thread Kyaw Khine
Hmmm.. When /24 gets to those ISP (direct connected to 19094/telcove), shouldn't they prefer 701/mci path? AS-PATH is longer through 19094 than through 701 ... provided that those ISP are accepting/receiving path from 701. --- "Christopher L. Morrow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 20 Oc

Re: /24 multihoming issue

2005-10-19 Thread Kyaw Khine
There are a few ISP they are seeing path from 701. But very few compare to prepended path via 19094. e.g route-server.colt.net (2914 701 33105) route-views.bmcag.net (1239 701 33105) --- Jon Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Kyaw Khine wrote: > > > > > routeviews is

Re: /24 multihoming issue

2005-10-19 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Jon Lewis wrote: > > On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Kyaw Khine wrote: > > > > > routeviews is seeing both paths. > > > > 64.9.17.0/24 > > AS 33105 > > > > ISP-A = 701 :) > > ISP-B = 19094 > > You might talk to 701 about why for instance, all I see is your > prepended path via 19094 th

Re: /24 multihoming issue

2005-10-19 Thread Kyaw Khine
I've heard and seen those filters a few years ago. In this particular case, I've seen a bunch of other /24s (from remote ASs) on the looking glasses. Looks like filters are base on other criteria on top of prefix length and I wonder which criterion this /24 falls into. --- "Christopher L. Morrow

Re: /24 multihoming issue

2005-10-19 Thread Jon Lewis
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Kyaw Khine wrote: routeviews is seeing both paths. 64.9.17.0/24 AS 33105 ISP-A = 701 :) ISP-B = 19094 You might talk to 701 about why for instance, all I see is your prepended path via 19094 through 3356, 6461, 4323, and 19962. Maybe 701 is only propogating your rou

Re: /24 multihoming issue

2005-10-19 Thread Kyaw Khine
routeviews is seeing both paths. 64.9.17.0/24 AS 33105 ISP-A = 701 :) ISP-B = 19094 Thanks ... --- Randy Bush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > try a peek at route views > > and, if you want help debugging, folk will want to > know the > prefix and the asn > > randy > >

Re: /24 multihoming issue

2005-10-19 Thread Randy Bush
try a peek at route views and, if you want help debugging, folk will want to know the prefix and the asn randy

Re: /24 multihoming issue

2005-10-19 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Kyaw Khine wrote: > I've contacted both ISPs and they both claimed they > are announcing our /24 to the rest of the world, > without manipulation. > > What am I missing here? some providers (for whatever reason, not really relevant to this conversation) do filter at boundar

/24 multihoming issue

2005-10-19 Thread Kyaw Khine
I'm having trouble announcing a single /24 from an ASN. ASN is multi-homed to ISP-A and ISP-B, prepending on ISP-B side. ASN in question has one and only one /24 which originally was from ISP-B /17 block. Some ISP only sees path from ISP-A and some from ISP-B and very few sees both paths. Apparen

Re: multi homing pressure

2005-10-19 Thread Jon Lewis
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Owen DeLong wrote: Yes and no. Most people that will spend the $$ for routers with enough memory to handle multiple full feeds are also looking to get a certain amount of TE capability out of the deal, and, at that point, babysitting the TE becomes more than 0.01 FTE (clos

Re: multi homing pressure

2005-10-19 Thread Owen DeLong
--On October 19, 2005 11:17:02 PM -0400 Jon Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Owen DeLong wrote: I've done simple ASN/BGP based multihoming for a number of businesses, and, it can be done on a mostly set-and-forget basis. If you have your upstreams supply 0.0.0.0/0 via B

Re: IPv6 daydreams

2005-10-19 Thread David Barak
--- David Conrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Oct 17, 2005, at 10:39 PM, Paul Jakma wrote: > >> Wrong issue. What I'm unhappy about is not the > size of the > >> address - you'll notice that I didn't say "make > the whole address > >> space smaller." What I'm unhappy about is the > exce

Re: multi homing pressure

2005-10-19 Thread Jon Lewis
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Owen DeLong wrote: I've done simple ASN/BGP based multihoming for a number of businesses, and, it can be done on a mostly set-and-forget basis. If you have your upstreams supply 0.0.0.0/0 via BGP and no other routes, and, you advertise your networks, believe it or not, tha

Re: Scalability issues in the Internet routing system

2005-10-19 Thread Tony Li
Daniel, I think it is safe, even with projected AS and IP uptake, to assume Moore's law can cope with this. Moore will keep up reasonably with both the CPU needed to keep BGP perking, and with memory requirements for the RIB, as well as other non-data-path functions of routers. Th

Re: Scalability issues in the Internet routing system

2005-10-19 Thread Tony Li
PS: Btw, anyone can give me a hint on where to discuss new ideas for e.g. routing schemes (and finding out whether it's an old idea)? You might start with the routing-discussion mailing list: http://www.rtg.ietf.org/ Please expect that your idea has been discussed before. We're an old

Re: multi homing pressure

2005-10-19 Thread David G. Andersen
On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 03:18:35AM +0100, Paul Jakma scribed: > On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, David G. Andersen wrote: > > >If you can run Squid, you can multihome your web connections today. > >It's a little bit awkward to configure, but then again, so is > >Squid. People are welcome to poke at, fold, s

Re: multi homing pressure

2005-10-19 Thread Paul Jakma
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, David G. Andersen wrote: If you can run Squid, you can multihome your web connections today. It's a little bit awkward to configure, but then again, so is Squid. People are welcome to poke at, fold, spindle, or mutilate: http://nms.lcs.mit.edu/ron/ronweb/#code (Part of m

Re: multi homing pressure

2005-10-19 Thread David G. Andersen
On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 10:19:28PM +, Paul Vixie scribed: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jared Mauch) writes: > > > it will be interesting to see if this has acutal impact on > > ASN allocation rates globally. > > i don't think so. multihoming without bgp isn't as hard as qualifying for > PI s

origin as numbers to ignore in an analysis

2005-10-19 Thread Randy Bush
if one is looking at origin-as in routing annoucements in route views, there are some asns that should be ignored, e.g., . is there a good list of these somewhere. randy

Re: non-provider aggregation, was: IPv6 news

2005-10-19 Thread Paul Jakma
Hi, On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: On 17-okt-2005, at 14:18, Jeroen Massar wrote: Another alternative is to force-align allocation and topology in some way /other/ than by "Providers" (geographical allocation in whatever hierarchy, IX allocation, whatever), such that networ

["Be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you send."]

2005-10-19 Thread bmanning
lest we forget... - Forwarded message - Bill, Could you forward to NANOG for me? Thanks, [snip] Jon, I'm sorry I forgot until just today... http://www.postel.org/postel.html - End forwarded message -

Two things more important than NANOG....

2005-10-19 Thread Fergie (Paul Ferguson)
Sorry for the interruption, but I couldn't let these two anniversaries pass without bringing them to your attention. http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/2005/10/in-memoriam-abha-ahuja.html [and] http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/2005/10/belatedly-october-16-1998-rip-jon.html I'll crawl back under my rock

Re: multi homing pressure

2005-10-19 Thread Paul Vixie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Todd Vierling) writes: > > The customer wants redundancy. > > That's why SLAs exist. no. sla's exist because actuarial tables and lawyers and accountants exist. -- Paul Vixie

Re: multi homing pressure

2005-10-19 Thread Paul Vixie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jared Mauch) writes: > it will be interesting to see if this has acutal impact on > ASN allocation rates globally. i don't think so. multihoming without bgp isn't as hard as qualifying for PI space. i think we'll finally see enterprise-sized multihoming NAT/proxy produ

Re: non-provider aggregation, was: IPv6 news

2005-10-19 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 17-okt-2005, at 14:18, Jeroen Massar wrote: Another alternative is to force-align allocation and topology in some way /other/ than by "Providers" (geographical allocation in whatever hierarchy, IX allocation, whatever), such that networks were easily aggregatable. Lots of objections though

Re: multi homing pressure

2005-10-19 Thread Owen DeLong
> Always remember: For every customer, their stuff _is_ mission > critical. So everyone will take the multihoming road if they > can afford it. > > We can make it more expensive, or we can offer other solutions. > Why should we do either? Why not fix the way we do routing so that it's OK for eve

Re: multi homing pressure

2005-10-19 Thread Owen DeLong
>> That's the operators' view, but not the customer's. >> The customer wants redundancy. > > That's why SLAs exist. > No... SLAs exist to extract some compensation when the level of service doesn't meet the need. In a mission critical situation, SLAs are pretty worthless. The primary benefit of

Re: Verizon outage in Southern California?

2005-10-19 Thread Deepak Jain
5 9s can be measured all sorts of ways... Network wide, it probably isn't even a blip. Even in terms of all of California service its probably not much more than a blip. Vicky Rode wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I wonder what ever happened to redundancy? I guess 5 9s

Re: multi homing pressure

2005-10-19 Thread Owen DeLong
> Well, not necessarily. > > Tier-2s should be given much more credit than they typically are in > write-ups like this. When a customer is single homed to a tier-2 that has > multiple tier-1 upstreams, and uses a delegated netblock from the tier-2's > aggregations, that means one less ASN and one

RE: multi homing pressure

2005-10-19 Thread Peter Kranz
Or you can get automated bogon feeds from our good friends at cymru.. http://www.cymru.com/BGP/bogon-rs.html Peter Kranz [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Patrick W. Gilmore Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 12:49 PM To:

Re: multi homing pressure

2005-10-19 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Oct 19, 2005, at 3:31 PM, Mark Radabaugh wrote: John Payne wrote: [...] If you don't have multihoming requirements other than availability then it really can be fire and forget. Except for those pesky bogon filters which corporations seem to like to "fire and forget". Perhaps

Re: multi homing pressure

2005-10-19 Thread Todd Vierling
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, John Payne wrote: > Hrm, people keep saying that BGP is hard and takes time. > > As well as my end-user-facing network responsibilities, I also have corporate > network responsibilities here. All of our corporate hub locations are > multi-homed (or soon will be)... and I hon

Re: multi homing pressure

2005-10-19 Thread Mark Radabaugh
John Payne wrote: > > Hrm, people keep saying that BGP is hard and takes time. > > As well as my end-user-facing network responsibilities, I also have > corporate network responsibilities here. All of our corporate hub > locations are multi-homed (or soon will be)... and I honestly can't > re

Re: multi homing pressure

2005-10-19 Thread John Payne
On Oct 19, 2005, at 12:20 PM, Todd Vierling wrote: Many customers would rather not multihome directly, and prefer "set it and forget it" connectivity. It's much easier to maintain a multi-pipe connection that consists of one static default route than a pipe to multiple carriers. The forme

Re: multi homing pressure

2005-10-19 Thread Elmar K. Bins
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Tancsa) wrote: > >The customer wants redundancy. > > The customer wants reliability That's what you know and what I know. The customer has already jumped one step ahead from "reliability" to "multiple providers", just like he does with parcel services etc. > There are b

Re: multi homing pressure

2005-10-19 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 11:59 AM 19/10/2005, Elmar K. Bins wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Todd Vierling) wrote: > Tier-2s should be given much more credit than they typically are in > write-ups like this. When a customer is single homed to a tier-2 that has > multiple tier-1 upstreams, and uses a delegated netblock fr

Re: multi homing pressure

2005-10-19 Thread Daniel Senie
At 01:05 PM 10/19/2005, John Dupuy wrote: For the customer with an Internet "mission critical app", being tied to a Tier 2 has it's own set of problems, which might actually be worse than being tied to a Tier 1. The key word is "might". In fact, I would posit that a Tier 2 with multiply red

Re: Verizon outage in Southern California?

2005-10-19 Thread Vicky Rode
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I wonder what ever happened to redundancy? I guess 5 9s (dunno what the going number is) got blown out of the water for them. regards, /virendra David Lesher wrote: > > Speaking on Deep Background, the Press Secretary whispered: > >> >>I'm not c

Re: multi homing pressure

2005-10-19 Thread John Dupuy
For the customer with an Internet "mission critical app", being tied to a Tier 2 has it's own set of problems, which might actually be worse than being tied to a Tier 1. The key word is "might". In fact, I would posit that a Tier 2 with multiply redundant transit to all of the Tier 1s could

Re: multi homing pressure

2005-10-19 Thread Edward B. Dreger
TV> Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 12:20:25 -0400 (EDT) TV> From: Todd Vierling TV> That's why SLAs exist. I thought SLAs existed to comfort nontechnical people into signing contracts, then denying credits via careful weasel words when the time comes for the customer to collect. Or maybe I'm just cyn

Re: multi homing pressure

2005-10-19 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Todd Vierling wrote: That's the operators' view, but not the customer's. The customer wants redundancy. That's why SLAs exist. SLAs exist to provide a means of allowing a vendor to 'feel your pain' when you experience some type of a service outage. They generally do n

Re: multi homing pressure

2005-10-19 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Oct 19, 2005, at 12:34 PM, Edward Lewis wrote: At 12:20 -0400 10/19/05, Todd Vierling wrote: That's why SLAs exist. Do SLA's say "if you are out of the water for 30 minutes we will also cover your lost business revenue?" There are some times with service guarantees just are not enou

Re: multi homing pressure

2005-10-19 Thread Edward Lewis
At 12:20 -0400 10/19/05, Todd Vierling wrote: That's why SLAs exist. Do SLA's say "if you are out of the water for 30 minutes we will also cover your lost business revenue?" There are some times with service guarantees just are not enough (e.g., manned space flight support). -- -=-=-=-=-=

Re: multi homing pressure

2005-10-19 Thread Elmar K. Bins
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Patrick W. Gilmore) wrote: > The problems with a small provider might include: > > * Business viability > * Global reach > * Capacity > * Redundant architecture > * Etc., etc., etc. Thanks - understood ;-) I see, btw, a lot of Tier-3 (or -4, -5) providers that have

Re: multi homing pressure

2005-10-19 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Oct 19, 2005, at 12:08 PM, Elmar K. Bins wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Patrick W. Gilmore) wrote: For the customer with an Internet "mission critical app", being tied to a Tier 2 has it's own set of problems, which might actually be worse than being tied to a Tier 1. Please elaborate. I pr

Re: multi homing pressure

2005-10-19 Thread Erik Haagsman
On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 12:03 -0400, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: > For the customer with an Internet "mission critical app", being tied > to a Tier 2 has it's own set of problems, which might actually be > worse than being tied to a Tier 1. I think this is largely dependant on the specific topolo

Re: multi homing pressure

2005-10-19 Thread Todd Vierling
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Elmar K. Bins wrote: > > Tier-2s should be given much more credit than they typically are in > > write-ups like this. When a customer is single homed to a tier-2 that has > > multiple tier-1 upstreams, and uses a delegated netblock from the tier-2's > > aggregations, that me

Re: multi homing pressure

2005-10-19 Thread Elmar K. Bins
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Patrick W. Gilmore) wrote: > For the customer with an Internet "mission critical app", being tied > to a Tier 2 has it's own set of problems, which might actually be > worse than being tied to a Tier 1. Please elaborate. Elmar.

Re: multi homing pressure

2005-10-19 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Todd Vierling wrote: > On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: > > > > > "Gartner said every location that requires mission-critical > > > > internet connectivity, including externally hosted > > > > websites, should be multi-homed" > > > > > > 200k routes, here

Re: multi homing pressure

2005-10-19 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Oct 19, 2005, at 11:54 AM, Todd Vierling wrote: "Gartner said every location that requires mission-critical internet connectivity, including externally hosted websites, should be multi-homed" 200k routes, here we come! it is just good common sense though, eh? Well, not necessarily.

Re: multi homing pressure

2005-10-19 Thread Elmar K. Bins
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Todd Vierling) wrote: > Tier-2s should be given much more credit than they typically are in > write-ups like this. When a customer is single homed to a tier-2 that has > multiple tier-1 upstreams, and uses a delegated netblock from the tier-2's > aggregations, that means one l

Re: multi homing pressure

2005-10-19 Thread Todd Vierling
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: > > > "Gartner said every location that requires mission-critical > > > internet connectivity, including externally hosted > > > websites, should be multi-homed" > > > > 200k routes, here we come! > > it is just good common sense though, eh? We

Re: multi homing pressure

2005-10-19 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 11:31:32AM -0400, Jared Mauch wrote: > it will be interesting to see if this has acutal impact on > ASN allocation rates globally. I have done no analysis, but I do believe this is having an effect on the number of prefixes announced by many of t

Re: multi homing pressure

2005-10-19 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Todd Vierling wrote: > > On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Brandon Butterworth wrote: > > > "Gartner said every location that requires mission-critical > > internet connectivity, including externally hosted > > websites, should be multi-homed" > > 200k routes, here we come! it is just

Re: multi homing pressure

2005-10-19 Thread Todd Vierling
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Brandon Butterworth wrote: > "Gartner said every location that requires mission-critical > internet connectivity, including externally hosted > websites, should be multi-homed" 200k routes, here we come! -- -- Todd Vierling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL

Re: multi homing pressure

2005-10-19 Thread Jared Mauch
On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 03:48:09PM +0100, Brandon Butterworth wrote: > > "Firms must defend against ISP clashes, warns Gartner > Commercial row between ISPs shows vulnerability of single sourcing > says analyst" > http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/Article.aspx?liArticleID=212391 > > Look

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-19 Thread Tom Vest
On Oct 19, 2005, at 9:39 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why is it that whenever people suggest that the IP networking world can learn from the experience of the telephony world, some people assume that the proposal is to imitate the telephony world in every detail? Seems to me to be a species

multi homing pressure

2005-10-19 Thread Brandon Butterworth
"Firms must defend against ISP clashes, warns Gartner Commercial row between ISPs shows vulnerability of single sourcing says analyst" http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/Article.aspx?liArticleID=212391 Looks like it's about to enter the corporate rule book "Gartner said every location tha

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-19 Thread Michael . Dillon
> Survey says... BZT. Yaur argument is fallacious. > Read about SS7 LNP implementation before speaking, please. I never said anything about SS7 implementation of LNP. > They are very different creatures. Something that resembles telephony LNP > will not scale to the quantity of micro-st

RE: Scalability issues in the Internet routing system

2005-10-19 Thread Susan Hares
Elmer: You are not cooking for the routing table (hence loss of information). You are cooking for the forwarding entries in the line cards.. As to architectural discussion, I believe the IRTF is publishing work from On NG architecture. I'll be glad to send you pointers. 2 panels of routing exp

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-19 Thread Todd Vierling
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Again, phone numbers and their portability can and should not be > > compared with the IP address portability issues. They're very > > different animals. > > That's your elephant. My elephant looks different. Survey says... BZT. Read about

Re: Scalability issues in the Internet routing system

2005-10-19 Thread Paul Jakma
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Andre Oppermann wrote: the rationale behind MPLS. However here we need something that administratively and politically works inter-AS like prefix+BGP today. Maybe the new 32bit AS number may serve as such a perfect match routing identifier. Interesting idea. That'd m

Re: Scalability issues in the Internet routing system

2005-10-19 Thread Per Heldal
On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 09:31 +0200, Elmar K. Bins wrote: > Susasn, > > > Using the compression ("cooking") per router can provide one level of > > abstraction [reduction of prefix space] at router. So cooking down your > > Large number of routes to a "minimum" set of routes can provide some > > l

Re: Scalability issues in the Internet routing system

2005-10-19 Thread Andre Oppermann
Tony Li wrote: Andre, capacity = prefix * path * churnfactor / second capacity = prefixes * packets / second I think it is safe, even with projected AS and IP uptake, to assume Moore's law can cope with this. This one is much harder to cope with as the number of prefixes and the link sp

Re: Scalability issues in the Internet routing system

2005-10-19 Thread Elmar K. Bins
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andre Oppermann) wrote: > >Apart from that, IMHO cooking down the prefixes only buys time, but does > >not solve the problem. More people will multihome, and with the current > >mechanisms and routing cloud, they have to do it by injecting prefixes. > > And this won't change i

Re: Scalability issues in the Internet routing system

2005-10-19 Thread Andre Oppermann
Elmar K. Bins wrote: Susasn, Using the compression ("cooking") per router can provide one level of abstraction [reduction of prefix space] at router. So cooking down your Large number of routes to a "minimum" set of routes can provide some leverage against the prefix growth. By cooking down

Re: And Now for Something Completely Different (was Re: IPv6 news)

2005-10-19 Thread Per Heldal
On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 15:52 -0700, David Conrad wrote: > Hmm. Are the aliens who took the _real_ IETF and replaced it with > what's there now going to give it back? :-) > Sure they'll hand it back ... when there is no more money to be made from IETF-related technology and politicians no lon

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-19 Thread Michael . Dillon
> Again, phone numbers and their portability can and should not be > compared with the IP address portability issues. They're very > different animals. That's your elephant. My elephant looks different. Phone numbers and IP addresses are exactly the same. They are numbers used to identify the l

Re: And Now for Something Completely Different (was Re: IPv6 news)

2005-10-19 Thread Michael . Dillon
> Obviously if the RIRs contacted the folks responsible for a given block and > were provided justification for its continued allocation, then it should not > be reclaimed. On the other hand, folks sitting on several class Bs and not > using them could have their blocks reclaimed trivially;

Re: Scalability issues in the Internet routing system

2005-10-19 Thread Elmar K. Bins
Susasn, > Using the compression ("cooking") per router can provide one level of > abstraction [reduction of prefix space] at router. So cooking down your > Large number of routes to a "minimum" set of routes can provide some > leverage against the prefix growth. By cooking down the prefixes you