IPv6 Routing table will be bloated?

Frank Bulk - iName.com frnkblk at iname.com
Sat Oct 30 21:14:56 UTC 2010


A combo WISP and pre-DOCSIS cable system we bought four years ago in a
relatively rural area had exactly such a setup with Sprint and
UUNet/Verizon/MCI.  They had just one T-1 with each provider and a very
simple BGP configuration.  I just checked, and see that their ASN has been
reused.

Frank

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Boyd [mailto:cboyd at gizmopartners.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2010 3:08 PM
To: NANOG
Subject: Re: IPv6 Routing table will be bloated?

On Oct 26, 2010, at 2:45 PM, George Bonser wrote:

> But how do they multihome without an ASN?
> If they have an ASN, how did they get it without going to an RIR and
> paying a fee?

I beleive Jack said that they have redundant connections to his network.  I
took that to mean that they did not multihome to different AS.

Such arrangements are not uncommon.  Sprint seems to have done very well
selling this sort of near-turnkey service to rural DSL carriers, tiny single
town MSOs and the like.

--Chris






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