Re: Internet Exchange Point(IXP) questions

[Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists () gmail com>]

On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 4:24 PM, Michael K. Smith - Adhost
<mksmith () adhost com> wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: christopher.morrow () gmail com
> > why is it a good idea to send this to your customers? the next-hop
> > info is surely only useful to your local network? done right it's even
> > only relevant to the IX connected router, right? it seems wholely
> > unusful to your customers. (to me at least)
>
> I was thinking about what Leo said about tools that test each hop through a path.  At least my downstream customers 
> will be able to test through the SIX connection if I announce the /23 to them.

hopefully the path to the IXP prefix is the same as to the item they
are testing failure of? :)