[23073] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: transit across the ixs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Wed Feb 17 08:58:09 1999
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 05:42:06 -0800 (PST)
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: Paul Vixie <paul@vix.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
>> 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.
> Note that CIX does this by default at PAIX and on PB-SMDS. Not that those
> are major exchanges by Randy's likely definition. The only time we force
> next-hop-self is if the peer deliberately asks the exchange operator for
> port filtering, or if we're otherwise explicitly requested by a BGP peer
> send routes with next-hop-self.
cool beans. employment security for level-3s at the noc. makes it really
fun to debug when packets come from places different where routes go. good
job.
randy
