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> > Bill Simpson claims that this idea is ~10 years old, but if so perhaps > it's time to air it again. I thought of this during the route flap BOF at > NANOG, mentioned it, and nobody came up with any immediate reasons why > it wouldn't work, so I'm sending it to the list for further consideration. > > It's dead simple, really: Assign address blocks to pairs of providers. > Both providers announce those blocks all the time, and assign addresses > out of those blocks to customers who multihome between those two > providers. What if the customer ceases to be multihomed? Reassign it to another block? On the other hand, if a client starts operating as single homed, it will have to change Ip addresses when getting multihomed. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Alexandre Leib Grojsgold | tel: + 55 21 542-2746 | | LABORATORIO NACIONAL DE COMPUTACAO CIENTIFICA | fax: + 55 21 295-8499 | | 22.290 Rio de Janeiro - RJ - Brasil | | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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