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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Peering Policies and Route Servers
> There is one thing that the RS can't do. > > If A & B are doing 3rd party peering via the RS, the fact that the > A/RS peering is up & working and that the B/RS peering is up & > working unfortunately does not tell you if A & B can exchange > packets. > > If A & B are peering directly, then the fact that the peering is > up also tells you that they can exchange packets. > > Luckily this sort of breakage does not happen very often. > Unluckily, if it does break, if can be really hard to diagnose. > [email protected] (Andrew Partan) It has happened at least a few times in the past month at MAE-East (islands of disconnectivity), of course. Avi - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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