large multi-site enterprises and PI prefix [Re: who gets a /32 [Re: IPV6 renumbering painless?]]

Pekka Savola pekkas at netcore.fi
Mon Nov 22 18:24:15 UTC 2004


On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 bmanning at vacation.karoshi.com wrote:
>> This seems to imply several things:
>>  - when having lots of sites, you typically want to obtain local
>>    Internet connectivity, because transporting all the traffic over
>>    links or VPNs is a pretty heavy business
>
> 	this is an assertion which many have claimed is false.
> 	based on empericial evidence.
>
>>  - you don't want to backhaul all the traffic in the internal network
>>    / VPNs, so you'll either need to announce a lot of more specifics
>>    or use IP addresses from local internet providers
>
> 	this is also an assertion based on false premise.

Care to offer a couple of examples of this empirical evidence ?

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