OMB: IPv6 by June 2008

Sat Jul 9 17:49:53 UTC 2005

On Sat, 9 Jul 2005, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:

> On Sat, 09 Jul 2005 18:14:48 BST, "Stephen J. Wilcox" said:
> > forget the talk of juniper t320s in the core.. you are talking about the
> > problem caused by multihoming and multihoming prefixes are not originated
> > typically by such large and expensive routers but by small cheap systems at
> > the edge.
> 
> Yes, but how well does that multihoming work if the Junipers in the core
> can't/ won't carry your announcement? Currently, multihoming only works
> because it's cost-shifting - the pain of carrying the announcement is felt by
> the carriers, not the originators.

sorry, my point was perhaps unclear.. it was suggested that the increasing
requirements to operate routers would be a natural prevention to multihoming.. i
am saying that it is not the multihomers at the edge feeling that pain it is
those already in the core

Steve