Re: Peering Exchange

[Colton Conor <colton.conor () gmail com>]

Someone actually sent me a list from Equinix. If it says MLPE next to the
IP address of the provider then I assume they are using the MLPE route
server, and if not I assume you have to reach out to peer with them. Does
that sound accurate?

On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 3:32 PM, Bryan Socha <bryan () digitalocean com> wrote:

> Check out nl nog's the ring (they have a looking glass), routeviews or
> ripe's RIS project (bgplay) being an interface to the data).    You should
> be able to find someone sending up bgp data to these projects that include
> the route servers on different IX points.
>
>
> Bryan Socha
> Network Engineer
> DigitalOcean
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 3:09 PM, Colton Conor <colton.conor () gmail com>
> wrote:
>
> > Is there a way to browse a route server at certain exchanges, and see who
> > is and is not on the route server?
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 1:46 PM, Hugo Slabbert <hugo () slabnet com> wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue 2016-Jan-26 13:30:41 -0600, Mike Hammett <nanog () ics-il net>
> > wrote:
> > > Google or Facebook are exactly who you would want to connect with and
> > I'm
> > > > fairly sure they're on the route servers.
> > >
> > > ...and have open peering policies with pretty low requirements.
> > >
> > > https://peering.google.com/about/peering_policy.html
> > > https://www.facebook.com/peering/
> > >
> > > Gist:
> > >
> > > Google (in NA and EU) asks for >100 mbps peak for bilateral peering, but
> > > are on route servers where present and are happy to dish out & pick up
> > > routes that way for anyone not pushing enough bits for direct sessions.
> > >
> > > Facebook wants >50 mbps peak for bilateral peering, though I don't see
> > > them on route servers at e.g. the SIX.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Hugo
> > >
> > > hugo () slabnet com: email, xmpp/jabber
> > > PGP fingerprint (B178313E):
> > > CF18 15FA 9FE4 0CD1 2319 1D77 9AB1 0FFD B178 313E
> > >
> > > (also on Signal)
> > >
> > >
> > > Other than driving additional revenue by needing to buy ports to both or
> > > > possible regulatory concerns, I'm not sure why these companies spin up
> > an
> > > > exchange for every new fad that comes along. They all just boil down
> > to an
> > > > Ethernet fabric.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > -----
> > > > Mike Hammett
> > > > Intelligent Computing Solutions
> > > > http://www.ics-il.com