[52420] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: selective prepends...one more time
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Iljitsch van Beijnum)
Mon Sep 30 18:21:33 2002
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 00:16:07 +0200 (CEST)
From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
To: Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20020930210945.GA72302@ussenterprise.ufp.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Leo Bicknell wrote:
> I'd like to ask a slightly different question. At the providers
> who do support this feature, how many of your customers actually
> use it?
I can tell you that since this weekend Telia has one more customer using a
selective prepend. I'm glad they offer this feature since there wasn't
really any other way to avoid a congested path.
> The last time I asked a couple of people this question in private
> the answer was generally a number of customers that could be counted
> on one hand, even at some quite large providers.
I think most customers don't know how this works. Maybe someone should
write a book that explains this kind of stuff...
Iljitsch
