North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: transit across the ixs
On Sun, 14 Feb 1999, Randy Bush wrote: > you might be amused to write a bit of code to see if > your ix peers are giving you next-hops of other > provider(s). it is clear that a number of providers are > selling transit across the ixs. not at all cool. > > we can't decide whether to force next hop on their > routes, or keep watching and de-peer them if they do not > cease and desist. what do others do in this > circumstance? I'm aware of at least one fairly major backbone who does this (at least they used to). What's the issue with this anyways? I mean, at least superficially it's basically the same traffic. I can see that there would be some issues with how the traffic transitions the ixs, which may or may not be a problem. Pete.
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