remember the "diameter of the internet"?
Scott Granados
scott at graphidelix.net
Tue Jun 18 19:10:25 UTC 2002
"Broke-ass" is that a new technical term?
I like it:)
On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Richard A
Steenbergen wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 06:39:45PM +0000, E.B. Dreger wrote:
> >
> > That's what happened here. Rather than transitting the traffic
> > via a "last resort" across town/state, the higher local-pref of a
> > "local" peer won.
> >
> > Geography requirements for peers aren't inherently bad. There's
> > a point where things get extreme, but it would be nice to see
> > nationals peer in the south as well. If one has peering
> > requirements, at least set them to reach a positive goal...
>
> BGP twiddling cannot fix a broke-ass network design.
>
>
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