[169401] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Filter NTP traffic by packet size?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (sthaug@nethelp.no)
Sun Feb 23 12:30:10 2014
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 18:29:45 +0100 (CET)
To: peter.phaal@gmail.com
From: sthaug@nethelp.no
In-Reply-To: <CAB8g2zxHQa5s=JA=ajV6itLg_y+itLhVPdoRtOikUFS5qhcOVA@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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> The business model seems clearer when offering filtering as a service
> to downstream networks, the effects are narrowly scoped, and members
> have control over the traffic they accept from the exchange, e.g. I
> don't want to accept NTP traffic to any destination that exceeds
> 1Gbit/s, or is sourced from an NTP server on my blacklist. Giving
> policy control to the downstream allows them to protect their networks
> and make business decisions about how they want to prioritize services
> and customers when resources are constrained.
>
> Would exchange members pay for this type of control?
Speaking only for myself: No. The L2 IXes I connect to should use their
resources for packet switching, not filtering. Way too many things that
could go wrong if we go down the filtering path...
Steinar Haug, AS 2116
