RE: The Cidr Report

["Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow () mci com>]

On Sat, 13 Nov 2004, Roy wrote:

> You have jumped to the conclusion that a customer of the cable company is
> not multi-homed.  Bad assumption.  I can tell you that there are multihomed
> customers behind what you would normally think of as a cable company.

I'm not sure I did jump to that conclusion, and most (all?) of the
prefixes I looked at (quickly as they scrolled) had an originating ASN of
18665 or whichever was covad.  Either way, that would account for a few,
not all, of their deaggregated routes.

> Roy Engehausen
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog () merit edu [mailto:owner-nanog () merit edu]On Behalf Of
> Christopher L. Morrow
> Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 7:31 PM
> To: Randy Bush
> Cc: cidr-report () potaroo net; nanog () merit edu
> Subject: Re: The Cidr Report
>
>
> ....
>
> Of these listed 4 are cable companies, is there something in the cable
> modem networking that requires deaggregated routes beyond their borders?
> Is the problem that they might have seperate 'networks' for their regional
> parts and leak more specifics for these parts along with 'backup' routes
> via aggregates?
>
> ....