On 26 Mar 2014, at 17:44, Aled Morris <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I suggest you carefully look at the MOU for the LINX about how to connect. > >> I’d also suggest talking to the LINX directly as they can often offer the > >> best solution to how you connect – plugging in another switch is a big no > >> no typically. > >This may have been the situation until a decade or so ago, but connections > >to IXPs using a switch are extremely common these days. > Especially since the distinction between a switch and a router is being > eroded. > But I think I feel the same shudder that Neil does when someone suggests out > loud that they are connecting L2 devices to the fabric :-)
The major IXPs are all selling products which involve a provider doing just this in order to provide a partner programme, with multiple connections delivered on individual .1q tags on a trunk port. -- Will Hargrave LONAP Ltd +44 20 3137 8330
