IXP
Bill Woodcock
woody at pch.net
Fri Apr 17 19:05:49 UTC 2009
Sorry, hit "send" a little early, by accident.
On Apr 17, 2009, at 11:52 AM, Paul Vixie wrote:
> with the advent of vlan tags, the whole idea of CSMA for IXP
> networks is passe.
> just put each pair of peers into their own private tagged vlan.
I'm not sure whether you're being sarcastic, and if I'm not sure, I
bet people who don't know you really aren't sure. So: the only
nominal IXP I know of where that's really been experimented with
seriously is MYIX, in Kuala Lumpur, where it's been a notable
failure. The other 300-and-some IXPs do things normally, with an IX
subnet that people can peer across. So, the advent of standardized .
1Q tags in 1998, preceded by ISL for many years before that, has not
yet rendered the 99.6% majority best-practice passe.
Just a clarification.
-Bill
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