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> Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 05:53:39 -0700 (PDT) > From: Sean M. Doran <[email protected]> [ snip anecdote about demand for home multihoming ] > Is this a trend, or do I simply collect friends who are I've noticed it, too... in some ways demand is even greater than among small ISPs who have an inkling about how BGP works. The "BGP uninformed" ask, "Why can't traffic just choose one of two paths?" To them, it's all "The Internet"... routing is black magic behind the scenes that "just works", and all traffic should be able to use all of their connections. > completely unreflective of reality? Is my estimation that for > at least some broadband providers, per-household/per-customer > BGP is a operational expense rather than one requring the There are parties who are taking this into consideration. > capital purchase of new equipment, completely out-to-lunch (in > advance of an interesting new product launch in the next few > days)? Re the "high cost" of multihoming... perhaps now. Most "smaller places" can't afford to multihome given the current cost of two T1s (hard to get BGP over broadband) and a Cisco that holds 128M (even "smaller places" seem to concerned about brand recognition, and are often reluctant to run Zebra). However, I've encountered [consulting] customers with multiple _dialup_ connections who want to know if they can just balance traffic across both. I think that the demand is there -- current products just don't allow it. Eddy --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brotsman & Dreger, Inc. - EverQuick Internet Division Phone: +1 (316) 794-8922 Wichita/(Inter)national Phone: +1 (785) 865-5885 Lawrence --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 11:23:58 +0000 (GMT) From: A Trap <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: Please ignore this portion of my mail signature. These last few lines are a trap for address-harvesting spambots. Do NOT send mail to <[email protected]>, or you are likely to be blocked.
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