I see in http://www.onesc.net/communities/as3356/ that L3 doesn't permit
customers to multihome the 4/8 space that they inherited from BBN, via
GTE, etc, ad nauseum...
and I'm curious whether anyone knows why? It sounds like something there
might be an interesting story in...
Off-list is fine; I'll summarize if anyone else cares.
Cheers,
-- jra
Lots of other people are curious, but no one knows the answers. One
correspondent noted that Cogent did this with 38/8 when they bought PSI,
but he didn't really know why...
Cheers,
- jra
Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
I see in http://www.onesc.net/communities/as3356/ that L3 doesn't permit
customers to multihome the 4/8 space that they inherited from BBN, via
GTE, etc, ad nauseum...and I'm curious whether anyone knows why? It sounds like something there
might be an interesting story in...Lots of other people are curious, but no one knows the answers. One
correspondent noted that Cogent did this with 38/8 when they bought PSI,
but he didn't really know why...
It's really hard to put the genie back in the bottle once you've let it
out. considering the strategic significance of impending address
exhaustion one imagines that they have their reasons.
Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
I see in http://www.onesc.net/communities/as3356/ that L3 doesn't
permit
customers to multihome the 4/8 space that they inherited from BBN,
via
GTE, etc, ad nauseum...
Or, they inherited the directive - keep 4/8 pristine, aggregated, and
absolute (BBN land - customers, infra), from BBN, too !?!
and I'm curious whether anyone knows why? It sounds like something
there
might be an interesting story in...
Besides the obvious; where their other upstream became transit for (a
good portion of) 4/8, be it their or their other upstream's fault in
screwing up the adverts!?! I imagine those numbered out of 4/8 that
wished to multihome to another provider, requested IP renumbering from
BBN from one of BBN's non-4/8 (promiscuous) blocks.
But, I speculate.