Re: The term multihoming

["Michael H. Lambert" <lambert@psc.edu>]

> Careful with the terminology...
>
> In multihoming, two or more network connections to the same connectivity
> provider is a trivial case we don't have to worry about.  I believe this
> is what most academia do (we too).
Understood.  On one side we have four universities and a few other 
entities.  On the other, three commodity providers and two R&E networks. 
I'd call that multihoming.

We currently have a PA allocation from one of the R&E networks; if we were 
to ask, we could receive addresses from the other R&E network and, 
probably, one of the commodity providers.  We haven't asked, because 
multiple PA addresses on an interface would be problematic in our 
environment.

Michael

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