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RE: Broken Internet?


From: Roeland Meyer <rmeyer () mhsc com>
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 13:37:56 -0800


Greg,

There are a number of problems with what you have proposed. For one thing,
the tinker-factor is too high for production purposes. I have more, but this
day is dedicated to BizDev and I can't spare the time right now..

-----Original Message-----
From: woods () weird com [mailto:woods () weird com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 11:25 AM
To: Daniel Senie
Cc: nanog () merit edu
Subject: Re: Broken Internet?



[ On Tuesday, March 13, 2001 at 19:54:00 (-0500), Daniel 
Senie wrote: ]
Subject: Re: Broken Internet?

We can't. The point, though, is that the Internet needs to 
have a GOOD
way to support multihoming. We presently DO NOT have a good 
mechanism
for this. The IPv6 approach to this does not appear workable either.

That's because this is a problem that has never existed, not ever.

Proper *real* multi-homing has *ALWAYS* worked and it's technically an
excellent way to achieve redundant connectivity for a "small" network.
(other risks related to "all your eggs in one basket" type of physical
infrastructure aside, and they can be put aside for many businesses
because if the bricks&mortar part is destoryed the business can't
survive anyway....)

Given the various simple little tricks I mentioned you don't even need
to put multiple interfaces in every server.

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