Lessons from the AU model

Marshall Eubanks tme at multicasttech.com
Mon Jan 21 14:02:25 UTC 2008


OK, I give and admit my ignorance. What does "MLP" mean in this  
context ?

A google search for "Australia mlp" reveals many hits for "My Little  
Pony,"
which somehow I doubt is the intended meaning on this list.

A proper reference would be appreciated.

Regards
Marshall


On Jan 21, 2008, at 8:02 AM, Andy Davidson wrote:

>
>
> On 21 Jan 2008, at 01:43, Martin Barry wrote:
>
>> $quoted_author = "Andy Davidson" ;
>>> .. think about what happens when your customers' routes start  
>>> appearing
>>> through your MLP session as well.
>> Standard practice would be to localpref customer routes over  
>> peering routes.[...] The customer's inbound (standard billing  
>> metric) won't be affected but their ratio might.
>
> I'm really happy for you to sell me some transit as long as I can  
> peer with you over MLP as well.  Small commit.  I agree to give you  
> some of my prefixes over the paid session, but I'm going to put all  
> of my routes and my customer's routes on the MLP.
>
> With any luck you wont notice, just be happy that you suddenly seem  
> to be selling more transit via your upstreams and also peering off  
> more data too..  :-)
>
>
> Andy




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