Re: Peering VLANs and MAC addresses

["Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick () ianai net>]

On Nov 11, 2005, at 9:33 AM, Randy Bush wrote:

> > 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.

Touché.

No one is claiming that Bad Stuff does not happen.  However, NAPs  
these days are stable, scalable, and useful.  Picking your peers  
carefully - which is a requirement for public or private peering -  
helps.

We are just saying that "grown-ups" _DO_ use public IXes.  (Plus  
people like me. :)  And anyone who claims that IXes are bad places to  
trade traffic are ... not being very grown up.

--
TTFN,
patrick