Re: multi-homing fixes

[Steve Noble <snoble () sonn com>]

On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 04:51:15PM -0700, Randy Bush wrote:
> > Now on the other hand by saying "and if it's smaller then a /20 you will
> > be filtered" you cause undue pressure on people to "spin" their designs in
> > ways to show that they can use a /20 and get the allocation from ARIN
> > directly.
>
> you mean not use nat?  should i be broken-hearted?

NAT?!?  You are obviously not understanding the point I was attempting
to make.

The point was that companies may not need more then a /24 to put their
entire site on, yet may be pushed to say they have more in order to
acquire a /20 from ARIN, just to be globally visable.

If you were in a position where you did NOT have your own previously allocated
swamp/b/a space, you wanted to multihome to a few different providers
in such a way that you were globally reachable no matter who went offline
and you only needed a /24 or less, what would you do? 

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