[11619] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Transit over the MFS meet points as a product?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barry A. Dykes)
Tue Aug 5 14:21:29 1997
To: Avi Freedman <freedman@netaxs.com>
cc: danny@genuity.net, chris@nap.net, nanog@merit.edu
From: "Barry A. Dykes" <bdykes@genuity.net>
Reply-To: bdykes@genuity.net
Date: Tue, 05 Aug 1997 11:11:29 -0700
Of course this doesn't help when someone points default at you :(
Barry
> > 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
>
