[6440] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Exchanges that matter...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Huddle)
Fri Dec 6 16:37:45 1996
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 1996 16:25:57 -0500
From: Scott Huddle <huddle@mci.net>
To: jdd@vbc.net, amb@xara.net
Cc: huddle@mci.net, nanog@merit.edu
"Alex.Bligh" <amb@xara.net> wrote
> > I think that what Alex really should say 'No'. What he saying is
> > that for Xara UK-sourced traffic is split like this:
> > 50% is sent to UK peers at the LINX in London
> > 40% goes to the USA
> > 10% goes to dGIX in Stockholm
> >
> Doh! Yes. Must get reading lessons. Missed the word "remaining".
So none of the traffic from Xara goes back out to Xara customers?!
> Currently I have no foolproof way to differentiate traffic that
> goes over the LINX destined for in UK and outside UK. There's
> some work going on to build a list of UK ASes to this end (amongst
> others) but it hasn't been done yet.
Quite agreed this is hard stuff, thus my interest :)
> Jim is quite right (except it works bidirectionally).
Do you see symmetrical flows in and out of the country or do you
see more inbound that outbound?
-scott
