Re: Internet Exchange Point(IXP) questions

2011-02-19 Thread Martin Pels
Hi, On Fri, 18 Feb 2011 13:44:56 -0800 Leo Bicknell wrote: > In a message written on Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 04:36:28PM -0500, > Christopher Morrow wrote: > > leaking the IX prefix to customers, to me, seems like a recipe for > > much wider/unintended leakage :( > > Oh, it is. I remember when MAE

Re: Internet Exchange Point(IXP) questions

2011-02-18 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 4:46 PM, Leo Bicknell wrote: > The customers cloging up your help desk with this sort of stuff are > idiots.  Unfortunately that's where the majority of your helpdesk time > goes... i admit to missing it :( but yes, now with the explanation, I get your point :)

Re: Internet Exchange Point(IXP) questions

2011-02-18 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 04:37:05PM -0500, Christopher Morrow wrote: > On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 4:24 PM, Michael K. Smith - Adhost > > 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 th

Re: Internet Exchange Point(IXP) questions

2011-02-18 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 04:36:28PM -0500, Christopher Morrow wrote: > leaking the IX prefix to customers, to me, seems like a recipe for > much wider/unintended leakage :( Oh, it is. I remember when MAE-EAST was injected by at least 50 people into the DFZ because back then p

Re: Internet Exchange Point(IXP) questions

2011-02-18 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 4:24 PM, Michael K. Smith - Adhost wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: christopher.mor...@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

Re: Internet Exchange Point(IXP) questions

2011-02-18 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 4:29 PM, Leo Bicknell wrote: > In a message written on Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 02:34:21PM -0500, Christopher > Morrow wrote: >> 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

Re: Internet Exchange Point(IXP) questions

2011-02-18 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 02:34:21PM -0500, Christopher Morrow wrote: > 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

Re: Internet Exchange Point(IXP) questions

2011-02-18 Thread Joe Abley
On 2011-02-18, at 14:34, Christopher Morrow wrote: > On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 1:43 PM, Michael K. Smith - Adhost > wrote: > >> Sorry for the misfire on my last email. The 206.81.80.0/23 network is >> assigned to the SIX from ARIN. In general, we don't want >> people to announce that space to

RE: Internet Exchange Point(IXP) questions

2011-02-18 Thread Michael K. Smith - Adhost
> -Original Message- > From: christopher.mor...@gmail.com > [mailto:christopher.mor...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Christopher Morrow > Sent: Friday, February 18, 2011 11:34 AM > To: Michael K. Smith - Adhost > Cc: Yaoqing(Joey) Liu; nanog@nanog.org > Subject: Re: Intern

Re: Internet Exchange Point(IXP) questions

2011-02-18 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 1:43 PM, Michael K. Smith - Adhost wrote: > Sorry for the misfire on my last email.  The 206.81.80.0/23 network is > assigned to the SIX from ARIN.   In general, we don't want > people to announce that space to the DFZ, so the three providers listed above > are not filte

RE: Internet Exchange Point(IXP) questions

2011-02-18 Thread Michael K. Smith - Adhost
17, 2011 7:04 PM To: Michael K. Smith - Adhost Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Internet Exchange Point(IXP) questions On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 8:17 PM, Michael K. Smith - Adhost wrote: > -Original Message- > From: Yaoqing(Joey) Liu [mailto:joey.li...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday,

RE: Internet Exchange Point(IXP) questions

2011-02-18 Thread Michael K. Smith - Adhost
From: Yaoqing(Joey) Liu [mailto:joey.li...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 7:04 PM To: Michael K. Smith - Adhost Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Internet Exchange Point(IXP) questions On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 8:17 PM, Michael K. Smith - Adhost mailto:mksm...@adhost.com>>

Re: Internet Exchange Point(IXP) questions

2011-02-17 Thread Bill Woodcock
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Feb 17, 2011, at 7:24 PM, Randy Bush wrote: > this from the guy who pushed "layer three exchange points" for years? > rofl! I was one of the people who built one in 1994, and used it quite happily for a few years, until it had outlasted its need

Re: Internet Exchange Point(IXP) questions

2011-02-17 Thread Randy Bush
>> type 1: use exchange routers, which works in layer 3 > This is not an IXP. This is a router. That router would be owned by > someone, who would have some sort of policy in the router, which would > make it an Internet service provider, not an Internet exchange point. this from the guy who pus

Re: Internet Exchange Point(IXP) questions

2011-02-17 Thread Bill Woodcock
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Feb 17, 2011, at 6:03 PM, Yaoqing(Joey) Liu wrote: > As I know, generally there are two types of IXPs This is incorrect. > type 1: use exchange routers, which works in layer 3 This is not an IXP. This is a router. That router would be owned by

Re: Internet Exchange Point(IXP) questions

2011-02-17 Thread Yaoqing(Joey) Liu
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 8:17 PM, Michael K. Smith - Adhost < mksm...@adhost.com> wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Yaoqing(Joey) Liu [mailto:joey.li...@gmail.com] > > Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 6:03 PM > > To: nanog@nanog.org > >

Re: Internet Exchange Point(IXP) questions

2011-02-17 Thread Randy Bush
>> On the Seattle Internet Exchange (SIX) we have ARIN-assigned >> addresses that we use on the Layer 2 fabric (your type 2 above). >> Hopefully the addresses aren't being announced at all, although we >> sometimes have to chase down people that announce it. > > I've had to deal with exchanges lik

Re: Internet Exchange Point(IXP) questions

2011-02-17 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 02:17:48AM +, Michael K. Smith - Adhost wrote: > On the Seattle Internet Exchange (SIX) we have ARIN-assigned addresses that > we use on the Layer 2 fabric (your type 2 above). Hopefully the addresses > aren't being announced at all, although we

RE: Internet Exchange Point(IXP) questions

2011-02-17 Thread Michael K. Smith - Adhost
> -Original Message- > From: Yaoqing(Joey) Liu [mailto:joey.li...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 6:03 PM > To: nanog@nanog.org > Subject: Internet Exchange Point(IXP) questions > > I'm doing some research on multiple origin AS problems of IXPs. As

Internet Exchange Point(IXP) questions

2011-02-17 Thread Yaoqing(Joey) Liu
I'm doing some research on multiple origin AS problems of IXPs. As I know, generally there are two types of IXPs type 1: use exchange routers, which works in layer 3 type 2: use switches and Ethernet topology, which works in layer 2. So I have a couple of qustions: 1. For type 1, the exchange route