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[Seth David Schoen]

Rick Moen writes:

> What I would want in a provider, if I didn't have it as part
> of my living situation, is somebody who'd competently furnish bare
> IP connectivity and a static route to a class C, and otherwise stay 
> the hell out of my way.  @Home _definitely_ does not qualify.

How about a dynamic route to a static class C block?  Some otherwise
respectable providers have been known to use such newfangled protocols as
BGP4... :-)

But seriously, UC Berkeley is multi-homed, and while things don't usually
fail over automatically, they have frequently managed to fail over
successfully (especially in cases of attempts to route UCB traffic through
other UCNet sites).  So dynamic routes are handy to have, when they work
properly, and don't require any local renumbering.  It is argued that one
big advantage of IPv6 is that it will actually make all of this stuff work
cleanly.

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