IXP

Sun Apr 19 00:45:48 UTC 2009

Best solution I ever saw to an 'unintended' third-party
peering was devised by a pretty brilliant guy (who can
pipe up if he's listening).  When he discovered traffic
loads coming from non-peers he'd drop in an ACL that
blocked everything except ICMP - then tell the NOC to
route the call to his desk with the third party finally gave
up troubleshooting and called in...

fun memories of the NAPs...

jy

On Apr 18, 2009, at 11:35 AM, Nick Hilliard wrote:

> On 18/04/2009 01:08, Paul Vixie wrote:
>> i've spent more than several late nights and long weekends dealing  
>> with
>> the problems of shared multiaccess IXP networks.  broadcast storms,
>> poisoned ARP, pointing default, unintended third party BGP,  
>> unintended
>> spanning tree, semitranslucent loops, unauthorized IXP LAN  
>> extension...
>> all to watch the largest flows move off to PNI as soon as somebody's
>> port was getting full.
>