On Sun, Jan 24, 1999 at 09:35:13PM -0800, Randy Bush wrote:
o does anyone see why the exchange address space needs to be globally routable? Traceroute.
as the fabric is used for peering under bi-lats, if we each announce the mesh to our customers and not to our peers, then i believe you will have your tracroutes and yet the prefix does not have to be globally routable, e.g. could be 209.666.42/24.
randy
Holdon, i don't even see the need for that; if you traceroute out, the packets will cross the exchange irregardless of whether you're announcing it to your customers, and a message of TTL exceeded will be generated from the exchange's address.. The important question is, should they be globally UNIQUE for troubleshooting purposes? I think so. Mike -- Michael P. Lyle Security Architect Exodus Communications