On Sep 13, 2007, at 12:05 AM, Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino wrote:
I believe that a more constructive assessment is that enterprises are
unwilling to pay non-trivial costs to renumber, and ISPs are
unwilling to pay non-trivial costs to support a non-scalable routing
subsystem.
my persistent question to the enterprise operator is this:
how frequently do you plan to switch your isp, or how many times
did you do that in the past?
That's actually irrelevant. Regardless of the real answer,
enterprises are not willing to buy into vendor lock.
Except there really is no vendor lock anymore. It is
possible to automate the entire renumbering process. If
there are spots where it is not automated then they should
be found and fixed.
One of the best ways to get these things fixed would be for
the router/firewall/... companies to actually switch between
prefixes on a regular (monthly initially) basis. This of
course assumes that they are using their own products.
Can my firewall be reconfigured just by adding/deleting a prefix?
Can my router be reconfigured just by adding/deleting a prefix?
Can my ...
Similarly multi-home some sites out of PA space and regularly
break connectivity on to one or more providors. Nothing
like doing to work out the bugs is the system.
Mark
Tony
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