[113923] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IXP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Vixie)
Thu Apr 23 21:48:32 2009
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Paul Vixie <vixie@isc.org>
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 01:48:28 +0000
In-Reply-To: <40948110-1240078448-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-766315601-@bxe1202.bisx.prod.on.blackberry>
(Bill Woodcock's message of "Sat\, 18 Apr 2009 18\:12\:45 +0000")
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"Bill Woodcock" <woody@pch.net> writes:
> ... Nobody's arguing against VLANs. Paul's argument was that VLANs
> rendered shared subnets obsolete, and everybody else has been rebutting
> that. Not saying that VLANs shouldn't be used.
i think i saw several folks, not just stephen, say virtual wire was how
they'd do an IXP today if they had to start from scratch. i know that
for many here, starting from scratch isn't a reachable worldview, and so
i've tagged most of the defenses of shared subnets with that caveat. the
question i was answering was from someone starting from scratch, and when
starting an IXP from scratch, a shared subnet would be just crazy talk.
--
Paul Vixie
