Peering VLANs and MAC addresses
Patrick W. Gilmore
patrick at ianai.net
Fri Nov 11 14:40:14 UTC 2005
On Nov 11, 2005, at 9:33 AM, Randy Bush wrote:
>> Who said "big carriers" don't join IXes? There are plenty of
>> networks who have more traffic than some "teir ones" at IXes.
>> Hell, RANDY has a presence at least one IX.
>
> well, one of my routers does :-) and it moves almost 50kb/sec!
:-)
> i have spent <long enough i don't want to count> years trying to
> get large isps to peer openly (originally pushed by asp). the
> costs of managing in the presence of bad behavior on public meshes
> is often used as a reason not to peer publicly.
Touché.
No one is claiming that Bad Stuff does not happen. However, NAPs
these days are stable, scalable, and useful. Picking your peers
carefully - which is a requirement for public or private peering -
helps.
We are just saying that "grown-ups" _DO_ use public IXes. (Plus
people like me. :) And anyone who claims that IXes are bad places to
trade traffic are ... not being very grown up.
--
TTFN,
patrick
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