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>If filter policies like Sprint's and Verio's really are common among the >big backbone providers, that would seem to make it relatively pointless to >attempt to multi-home with provider supplied IP space. We have a customer >interested in multihoming for reliability, but they use so little IP >space, even assigning them a /24 would be a stretch. Since the space we >let them use is in 209.x.x.x, it seems their route wouldn't get far. So >how do they make their internet connection more reliable? Use IP space >from each of their providers and play games with DNS and NAT? Yes, or get their provider to give them a chunk of swamp space (which a few have tucked away), multihome with the same provider, or find a way to justify a routable allocation. None of these are, IMO, very good solutions. Austin
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