[50374] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: istop arrogance
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ralph Doncaster)
Sat Jul 27 10:14:50 2002
Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 10:16:35 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ralph Doncaster <ralph@istop.com>
To: Paul Schultz <pschultz@pschultz.com>
Cc: "nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0207270931170.3452-100000@elvis.kravshera.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> > Why won't the rest of the world see extra hops and increased latency
> > reaching my network (for the 50% of the time that the wrong transit
> > provider is picked).
>
> Because you could *gasp* be intelligent with your network design and do
> things like purchase transit from the same carriers in both your serving
> markets.
I guess you don't consider redundancy to be intelligent. I do. I guess
you can call me stupid.
> The problem here Ralph is that you see absolutely no problem with doing
> things on your network that have minimal benefit to you, yet have global
> impact.
The problem here Paul is that you can't seem to see the forest for the
trees.
If you consider routing table size reduction so important, why don't you
filter all /24's? That will give you much more benefit than /20's that
have been de-aggregated.
-Ralph
