Peering VLANs and MAC addresses

Fri Nov 11 09:06:59 UTC 2005

Randy Bush wrote:

> the only stuff that makes me feel at all safe is what mike hughes
> of linx described, or something even stricter, but i bow to mike's
> experience.
> 
> and folk wonder why the grown-ups use pnis for anything important.

Isn't this due to the fact their engineering scale is bigger? There's little 
point connecting to an IX fabric if you want to peer with 3 others and all of 
those at 10G. The assumption that big carriers don't join IXs because they're 
somehow unreliable or toy-like doesn't seem fair.

Many folk have the highest respect for the operational efficacy of membership 
organisations like the LINX, and that is borne out by their willingness to join 
and put traffic across the exchanges.

Will