Re: Peering VLANs and MAC addresses

[Randy Bush <randy () psg com>]

> 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