[101953] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Lessons from the AU model
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marshall Eubanks)
Mon Jan 21 09:10:31 2008
In-Reply-To: <D6699BB4-065D-4CE0-8CF8-EA6DC4CE8D6D@nosignal.org>
Cc: Martin Barry <marty@supine.com>, nanog@merit.edu
From: Marshall Eubanks <tme@multicasttech.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 09:02:25 -0500
To: Andy Davidson <andy@nosignal.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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
