small site multi-homing (related to: Small guys with BGP issues)

Tue Nov 3 17:28:06 UTC 2009

While the idea of seamless routing sounds great, so does world peace... I 
don't think I will see either in my lifetime.  There are some technical 
hurdles you will have to solve first.

1st how do I solve security (preventing spoofing and other evil deeds done by 
rouge networks).
2nd how can my system scale and achieve stability.
3rd how will my routes work and converge (unstable routes don't work really 
well).
4th My system will need to work and scale on a much larger environment than a 
lab.
5th How do I test and verify your system.
6th Politics/Layer 8 (think peering wars)
7th How do I propose for routers be able to store (2^128 + 2^32) * x routes in 
their routing table, and possibly utilize current hardware (the whole world 
isn't going to do a flag day forklift upgrade)
8th How am I going to get anyone to invest money and R&D into my system.

If you have any good idea's we'd love to hear them.  I am open to such a 
system, but do not think it can realistically happen anytime soon.

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Brian Raaen
Network Engineer
braaen at zcorum.com

On Tuesday 03 November 2009, Mike wrote:
> 
>     Small-site multi-homing is one of the great inequities of the 
> Internet and one that can, and should, be solved. I envision an Internet 
> of the future where anyone with any mixture of any type of network 
> connections can achieve, automatically, provider independence and 
> inbound/outbound load sharing across disparate links. Gone is the built 
> in hostage situation of having to either use your provider assigned IP's 
> (>%99 of internet connected sites today), or the quantum leap of being 
> an AS with PI space (and the associated technical baggage to configure 
> and manage that beast).  End users should have the power to dictate 
> their own routing policies and not suffer thru 'damping', 'urpf', or 
> other policies imposed on how or when their packets come and go. So if 
> you want to use 2 dsl lines and a CDMA modem, or a satellite and a 
> fiber, or 27 dial up modems and a T1, you should be able to do that and 
> the network should work with you to deliver your packets no matter where 
> 'you' connect or how.
> 
>     What it's gonna take is new routing paradigms and new thinking about 
> the role of providers and users and a lowering of the barriers between 
> these two for more cooperation in the overall structure of the network. 
> Just like classfull addressing giving way to cidr, I belive hierarchal 
> routing will give way to truely dynamic routing where all participants 
> have equal capabilities over their own domain with no one (or group) of 
> 'providers' having any more or less influence on global reachability for 
> any 'users' who choose to go their own way, and I expect that to be an 
> easy (or even default) choice in the future.
> 
>     You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope some day 
> you'll join us, and the world will live as one.
> 
> 
> 
> >> What is the issue here, that your DSL provider won't speak BGP with you
> >> no matter how many times you've asked, so you're complaining to NANOG
> >> about it because you don't have the ability or authority to change
> >> providers? Please correct me if I'm reading this wrong, but the emails
> >> so far haven't been very clear and this isn't making a lot of sense.
> >>
> 
> 
> 