[33603] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Favorites (Re: UUNET peering policy)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marius Strom)
Wed Jan 17 15:41:32 2001
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 14:38:44 -0600
From: Marius Strom <marius@marius.org>
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According to what I've heard from Qwest folks, they honor MEDS. (Taken
with a grain of salt, it was part of a sales pitch).
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 12:25:50PM -0800, Christian Nielsen wrote:
>
> On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Leo Bicknell wrote:
>
> > user->server: 2->4->3
> > server->user: 3->1->2
> >
> > Consider what AboveNet does. By honoring meds the following
> > paths occur (abovenet as net 2 in the picture):
> >
> > user->server: 2->4->3
> > server->user: 3->4->2
>
> This assumes that the network you are peering with sends correct MEDs.
> This also assumes that one always honors MEDs. What happens during fiber
> cuts or when you are waiting for an upgrade on your circuits? Do you
> continue to honor MEDs and hurt the customer?
>
> Honoring MEDs is not Black and White. I dont know one large network that
> honors all MEDs from every peer. For the most part, I would say that most
> providers do 'warm' routing. it just depends on what degree of warm you
> can live with.
>
> Christian
>
>
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