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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
In message <[email protected]>, Andrew Partan writes: > > The RA has implemented requirements that providers have when a > > provider communicates what is needed. I can't find any messages > > from Sean indicating what he would like to express but can't. > > The RA team is always willing to work with providers to meet > > their needs. > > 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) Just because you don't BGP peer doesn't mean you should monitor reachability to your third party peers. The BGP mib is handy, but this is nothing a ping test can't detect. Too bad there is no LQM on broadcast media. Curtis - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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