[2794] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Peering Policies and Route Servers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marten Terpstra)
Thu May 2 10:55:56 1996
To: Jessica Yu <jyy@ans.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 02 May 1996 09:50:16 EDT.
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From: Marten Terpstra <marten@BayNetworks.com>
Date: Thu, 02 May 1996 10:48:52 -0400
Jessica Yu <jyy@ans.net> writes
* This could happen at a non-broadcast media NAP such as ATM nap when the
* PVCs between RS-A & RS-B are up but the PVC between A-B is down. But it's
* less likely to happen on a broadcast media NAP.
*
* It'd be ideal that the RS is injected with some intellegence to detect the
* fact that A can no long talk to B directly and thus stop passing routes betw
* een
* A & B. This will avoid the problem. But as you pointed out, it rarely
* happens so it may not worth the effort.
But the question is whether there will be more NBMA type NAPs in the
future. Point to MultiPoint for BGP, I like it ;-)
-Marten
