On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 01:47:45PM -0400, [email protected] wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Mar 2013 17:16:48 -0000, [email protected] said:
> >
> > is there a clear understanding of "the edge" in the network operations
> > community? in a simpler world, it was not that difficult, but interconnect
> > has blossomed and grown all sorts of noodly appendages/extentions. I fear
> > that edge does not mean what you think it means anymore.
>
> For 5 9's worth of eyeball networks hanging off consumer-grade ADSL and cable
> connections, it's still the edge and still trivially filterable. If that's
> a
> problem, the ISP can upsell a business-class connection that doesn't filter.
> ;)
>
5 9s? I'll go w/ big, but this seems a stretch to me.
if true (it might be), then filtering ought be done and
catch the delta. I still posit a baseline that does not
fit this lowhanging fruit... (trill networks, L2 transparent
bridging, L2-L3-VPNs, etc.)
/bill
