[86595] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Peering VLANs and MAC addresses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Fri Nov 11 09:33:47 2005
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 04:33:08 -1000
To: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> Who said "big carriers" don't join IXes? There are plenty of
> networks who have more traffic than some "teir ones" at IXes.
> Hell, RANDY has a presence at least one IX.
well, one of my routers does :-) and it moves almost 50kb/sec!
i have spent <long enough i don't want to count> years trying to
get large isps to peer openly (originally pushed by asp). the
costs of managing in the presence of bad behavior on public meshes
is often used as a reason not to peer publicly.
randy