> I do not buy the argument that it should be rejected because this
> would fill up the routing tables. If the Cogent/Telia ongoing
> dispute is any indication, even the SOHO's will soon need to
> multihome if they want global connectivity.
Indeed. I personally figure as people become more and more dependent
on Internet connectivity (e.g., not just for communication/
entertainment, but for system monitoring and control), multi-homing
will become the norm rather than the exception.
Let's suppose I'm SOHO user.
Also let's suppose I have IPv6 only in form of /48 from one of tunnel brokers(native IPv6 is not available to me).
And I want to multihome via IPv6(and think I have need for it). I think this would be rather common situation in near future.
How I could do it now?
- Where I can get PI space? And how much it will cost?
- How I could get BGP sessions established with several ISPs?Is it possible at all now?(for small SOHO user)
- What I could use as router(s)?Linux machine with Quagga(I'm SOHO user after all so no specialized Cisco gear)?
How I can do it in 1-2 years from now?
Or I better forget this idea and just get several /48s from different sources and let machines under my control to get several addresses and hope that in case one of connections will be broken, application-level mechanisms will retry and establish connection using different addresses?(in this case, i think this will be blatant waste of /48s _and_ decreased reliability for SOHO user)