[86584] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Peering VLANs and MAC addresses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Will Hargrave)
Fri Nov 11 04:07:42 2005
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 09:06:59 +0000
From: Will Hargrave <will@harg.net>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <17268.22624.915304.396293@roam.psg.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Randy Bush wrote:
> the only stuff that makes me feel at all safe is what mike hughes
> of linx described, or something even stricter, but i bow to mike's
> experience.
>
> and folk wonder why the grown-ups use pnis for anything important.
Isn't this due to the fact their engineering scale is bigger? There's little
point connecting to an IX fabric if you want to peer with 3 others and all of
those at 10G. The assumption that big carriers don't join IXs because they're
somehow unreliable or toy-like doesn't seem fair.
Many folk have the highest respect for the operational efficacy of membership
organisations like the LINX, and that is borne out by their willingness to join
and put traffic across the exchanges.
Will
