[11613] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Transit over the MFS meet points as a product?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Avi Freedman)
Tue Aug 5 09:40:49 1997
From: Avi Freedman <freedman@netaxs.com>
To: danny@genuity.net
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 1997 09:14:43 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: chris@nap.net, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199708050527.FAA03377@ice.genuity.net> from "Danny McPherson" at Aug 4, 97 10:27:42 pm
> If this happens I'd suggest everyone at the NAPs deploy some type of MAC-layer
> filtering. It's far to easy (and seemingly common) for providers to forget to
> set "next-hop-self" on NAP routes .. so what I foresee is providers selling
> transit via the exchanges ...and then never seeing the traffic bound to
> *their* unsuspecting peers.
Or:
'sho ip bgp neigh 192.41.177.x adv' and look at the next-hops.
I know that some providers have been doing it for years, probably
with automated expect-grep-type scripts..
> -danny
Avi
