Re: A new spin on multihoming: multihoming classes.

[Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>]

On Sun, 9 Sep 2001, Ramakrishna Gummadi wrote:

> My claim is that current BGP can be modified to both eliminate
> separate multihoming entries and include the same
> information that would be provided by a separate reachability cache.

BGP can of course tell you that a certain prefix is _not_ reachable, but
it can not tell you that a specific address within that prefix _is_
reachable. Better BGP multihoming doesn't mean there is no place for
multi-address multihoming.