[79208] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: T1 vs. T2 [WAS: Apology: [Tier-2 reachability and multihoming]]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James)
Thu Mar 31 21:20:48 2005
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 21:20:25 -0500
From: James <haesu@towardex.com>
To: Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net>
Cc: Dorian Kim <dorian@blackrose.org>,
John Dupuy <jdupuy-list@socket.net>,
Nanog Mailing list <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20050329215010.GS22400@overlord.e-gerbil.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 04:50:10PM -0500, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
[ snip ]
> I'd really hate to picture the size of the boom that would happen if
> people WERE to exchange transit paths with each other on anything other
> than a rare and isolated basis.
Yup... Already happening a lot in IPv6 today, mostly from legacy 6bone
operators who still refuse to clean up. Worse, such mutual full swapping
/ settlement-free transit exchange on large part is done over tunnels...
(oh snap...)
I can already go on and name at least five ASNs already that are doing this
on large scale but I think I'll refrain from doing so on a public mailing
list :D
-J
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