No one behind the wheel at WorldCom
Paul Schultz
pschultz at pschultz.com
Sat Jul 13 21:16:41 UTC 2002
On Sat, 13 Jul 2002, Stephen Stuart wrote:
> 1. Deaggregation to help spread out traffic flow. As someone who used
> to send a lot of traffic toward some big providers, it can be hard
> to balance traffic efficiently when all you get is one short prefix
> at multiple peering points. Having more-specifics, and possibly
> even MEDs that make sense, can help with decisions regarding which
> part of a /9 can be reached best via which peering point. (And
> that's peering as in BGP, not peering as in settlements.)
Legend speaks of a well known BGP community referred to as 'no export',
which causes people with no direct connections to $carrier to not
have to listen to all that extra junk while still engineering inbound
traffic w/ more specifics for people who peer directly in diverse
locations. Amazing!
> 2. Cut-outs for those pesky dot-coms; you know, the ones with the most
> compelling content on the Internet jumping up and down in your face
> with a need to multi-home their /24 to satisfy the crushing global
> demand for such essentials as "the hamster dance."
Ignoring inconsistent-as for a moment, the hamster dance multihoming
doesn't make the parent upstream need to _originate_ anything of the sort.
Paul
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