[5654] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Ungodly packet loss rates
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Curran)
Wed Oct 23 14:24:24 1996
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 14:20:22 -0400
To: Robert Laughlin <robert@portal.dx.net>
From: John Curran <jcurran@bbnplanet.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
At 12:33 10/23/96, Robert Laughlin wrote:
>As one who is living this senerio on a daily basis, I can tell you it's
>frustrating and upsetting. We have gone so far as to test the legality
>of what is happening (there *must* be someone we can sue <grin>). Public
>peering works well these days as the large networks move their traffic
>off the NAPs, freeing up bandwidth for the mid to smaller networks.
>
>The model that makes sense to me, is for the largest networks to exchange
>traffic through private interconnects, and for them to treat the
>aggregated NAP traffic as another large ISP. The NAP is then used for the
>2nd tier and smaller providers to exchange traffic with each other, as
>well as a collection point to gather up traffic for the large networks.
Interesting model: presuming that the "aggregating exchange point"
had a sizable backbone and could engage in shortest exit routing,
there's no reason why it shouldn't work. Of course, a _single_
exchange point can't meaningfully provide any benefit of shortest
exit routing, and would probably be treated as an extremely large
volume customer.
/John
