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Re: SORBS & deaggregation

  • From: Patrick W. Gilmore
  • Date: Wed Jul 06 20:35:52 2005 
On Jul 6, 2005, at 6:51 PM, David Barak wrote:


Perhaps the networks are disconnected? Perhaps there
is insufficient
bandwidth between the cities to carry inter-city
traffic?


So, why would GRE not be a reasonable (temporary)
solution here?  If the islands are going to remain
disconnected long term, why not get additional AS
numbers?
It is non-trivial to get additional ASNs, even if you are multi-homed in multiple sites.

Doesn't mean it can't be done.

But AS exhaustion is far more critical than IP exhaustion. (Or even RIB/FIB/proc exhaustion through additional prefixes, IMHO.) So if they want to be .. uh, well, a good 'Netizen and use one AS with static routes or defaults or something to route between them, that's better than a slew of ASes with the same prefix info we have today.

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TTFN,
patrick