[80356] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: PAIX Outages
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alexander Koch)
Fri Apr 29 08:34:03 2005
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 14:31:36 +0200
From: Alexander Koch <koch@tiscali.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <200504291224.NAA00377@sunf10.rd.bbc.co.uk>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Fri, 29 April 2005 13:24:06 +0100, Brandon Butterworth wrote:
> > With public peering you simply never know how much spare
> > capacity your peer has free.
>
> So? That doesn't make public peering bad, you don't know that
> for PI or transit either
For PI I know how much spare I have towards them, taking for
granted they can move the traffic. Which is the case in 99%
for all our peers currently that we have privates with. And
they can better move the traffic... and if not one tells the
other normally and things can be done.
> > And would you expect your
> > peer with 400 Mbit/s total to have 400 reserved on his AMSIX
> > port for you when you see 300 at LINX and LINX goes down?
>
> Yes and more fool you if they have and you haven't
This was not about 'my' or 'our' side, believe me...
Alexander
