tv@duh.org (Todd Vierling) wrote:
Tier-2s should be given much more credit than they typically are in write-ups like this. When a customer is single homed to a tier-2 that has multiple tier-1 upstreams, and uses a delegated netblock from the tier-2's aggregations, that means one less ASN and one or more less routes in the global table.
That's the operators' view, but not the customer's. The customer wants redundancy. So we should try to find a way to tell them "Hey, it's mostly Tier-1's (or wannabes) that play such games, stick to a trustworthy Tier-2. And, hey, btw., connect redundantly to them, so you have line failure resiliency and also a competent partner that cares for everything else." Only seeing the operators' view will amount to nothing in the customer's will to run along with the Tier-2. Eventually, it breaks down to trust. And customers learn that the "big players" are not always trustworthy. Oh, and customers do not always remember names. Yours, Elmar. -- "Begehe nur nicht den Fehler, Meinung durch Sachverstand zu substituieren." (PLemken, <bu6o7e$e6v0p$2@ID-31.news.uni-berlin.de>) --------------------------------------------------------------[ ELMI-RIPE ]---