[23057] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: transit across the ixs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pete Kruckenberg)
Sun Feb 14 21:22:10 1999
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 18:56:03 -0700 (MST)
From: Pete Kruckenberg <pete@kruckenberg.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <m10CCwS-0008G5C@rip.psg.com>
On Sun, 14 Feb 1999, Randy Bush wrote:
> you might be amused to write a bit of code to see if
> your ix peers are giving you next-hops of other
> provider(s). it is clear that a number of providers are
> selling transit across the ixs. not at all cool.
>
> we can't decide whether to force next hop on their
> routes, or keep watching and de-peer them if they do not
> cease and desist. what do others do in this
> circumstance?
I'm aware of at least one fairly major backbone who does
this (at least they used to).
What's the issue with this anyways? I mean, at least
superficially it's basically the same traffic. I can see
that there would be some issues with how the traffic
transitions the ixs, which may or may not be a problem.
Pete.
