On May 12, 2011, at 8:31 PM, Roy wrote: > On 5/12/2011 4:03 PM, George Herbert wrote: > > .... > > Large end-user companies generally multihomed by that time, and you > > generally did that by BGP4 at the time (post-1994), and before that > > BGP3, and before that EGP, and before that... well, there was little > > "commercial ISPness" other than NSFNet connectivity and the regional > > networks back then so multihoming was somewhat of a moot point. > > > > Thank you again, UUNet/Alternet and PSI! > > > > The management of the large end-user company I worked for could barely spell > Internet at the beginning of 1995. A few connections to the Internet existed > and the lab where I worked was experimenting with a socks-server. There was > a large intranet allocated from the company's class A space.
But it wasn't long before SOCKS (and proxy in non-US) servers were deployed throughout the entire company, connected behind an ISP owned and operated by that company. The connectivity was typically static routing to/from the POP in the same building IIRC.
