[69990] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Alternate and/or hidden infrastructure addresses (BGP/TCP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Bligh)
Fri Apr 23 11:02:06 2004
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 16:00:20 +0100
From: Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk>
Reply-To: Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk>
To: "Patrick W.Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>, nanog@merit.edu
Cc: Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk>
In-Reply-To: <84B7EDD0-9527-11D8-83B0-000A9578BB58@ianai.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
--On 23 April 2004 09:09 -0400 "Patrick W.Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
wrote:
>> (TTL should only be decremented when _forwarding_, and I don't think
>> you could argue that you need to _forward_ a packet from your ingress
>> interface to your _loopback_ interface..)
>
> Well, if that were the case, then you wouldn't need multi-hop to do
> loopback peering.
Um, only if there were no intervening hops: i.e. where the
physical mesh is
A---B
| |
C---D
Then A<->D, and B<->C peering requires multihop anyway.
Alex
