[48838] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: remember the "diameter of the internet"?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Granados)
Tue Jun 18 15:17:38 2002
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 12:10:25 -0700 (PDT)
From: Scott Granados <scott@graphidelix.net>
To: Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net>
Cc: "E.B. Dreger" <eddy+public+spam@noc.everquick.net>,
"Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@opaltelecom.co.uk>,
Mathew Lodge <mathew@cplane.com>,
Pawlukiewicz Jane <pawlukiewicz_jane@bah.com>,
brett watson <brett@the-watsons.org>,
"nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20020618184852.GJ99199@overlord.e-gerbil.net>
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"Broke-ass" is that a new technical term?
I like it:)
On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Richard A
Steenbergen wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 06:39:45PM +0000, E.B. Dreger wrote:
> >
> > That's what happened here. Rather than transitting the traffic
> > via a "last resort" across town/state, the higher local-pref of a
> > "local" peer won.
> >
> > Geography requirements for peers aren't inherently bad. There's
> > a point where things get extreme, but it would be nice to see
> > nationals peer in the south as well. If one has peering
> > requirements, at least set them to reach a positive goal...
>
> BGP twiddling cannot fix a broke-ass network design.
>
>
